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ἔπαθλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαθλον ἔπαθλου

Structure: ἐπαθλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the prize of a contest

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • προτιθεμένου δὲ ἐπάθλου φιλανθρώπου τῷ λύσαντι γαμεῖν τὴν Ιὀκάστην καὶ βασιλεύειν τῶν Θηβῶν, ἄλλον μὲν μηδένα δύνασθαι γνῶναι τὸ προτεθειμένον, μόνον δὲ Οἰδίπουν λῦσαι τὸ αἴνιγμα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 64 3:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν καταλιπόντεσ τὸν Τιμολέοντα μισθοφόροι τῆσ ἰδίασ παρανομίασ ἐπάθλου τοιαύτησ συμφορᾶσ ἔτυχον· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 82 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. the prize of a contest

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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