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ἐπασσύτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπασσύτερος ἐπασσύτερᾱ ἐπασσύτερον

Structure: ἐπασσυτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one upon another, one after another, upon

Declension

First/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

  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ αὖθι λέλειπτο σὺν ἀνδράσιν ὁπλοτέροισιν Ἡρακλέησ, ὃσ δή σφι παλίντονον αἶψα τανύσσασ τόξον ἐπασσυτέρουσ πέλασε χθονί· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 17:15)
  • Ὀρσίλοχον μὲν πρῶτα καὶ Ὄρμενον ἠδ’ Ὀφελέστην Δαίτορά τε Χρομίον τε καὶ ἀντίθεον Λυκοφόντην καὶ Πολυαιμονίδην Ἀμοπάονα καὶ Μελάνιππον, πάντασ ἐπασσυτέρουσ πέλασε χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 30:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Μένωνα καὶ Ιἀμενὸν καὶ Ὀρέστην πάντασ ἐπασσυτέρουσ πέλασε χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 12 13:8)
  • αὐτὰρ ἔπειτ’ Ἐρύμαντα καὶ Ἀμφοτερὸν καὶ Ἐπάλτην Τληπόλεμόν τε Δαμαστορίδην Ἐχίον τε Πύριν τε Ἰφέα τ’ Εὐίππόν τε καὶ Ἀργεάδην Πολύμηλον πάντασ ἐπασσυτέρουσ πέλασε χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 31:13)

Synonyms

  1. one upon another

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

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