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ἐπέλασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπέλασις ἐπέλασεως

Structure: ἐπελασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pelau/nw

Sense

  1. a charge

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐ τοῖσ Ῥωμαϊκοῖσ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ Σκυθικοῖσ, τοῦ ποικιλωτέραν τε καὶ ἅμα φοβερωτέραν γίγνεσθαι τὴν ἐπέλασιν. (Arrian, chapter 35 4:1)
  • ἡ δὲ ἵπποσ ἅπασα τῶν βαρβάρων ἐπὶ τὸ δεξιὸν ἡμῶν ἐλαύνουσιν, ὥστε, ὦ Λυκῖνε, αὐτόσ τε ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸσ γίγνου καὶ τοῖσ μετὰ σαυτοῦ παρακελεύου δέχεσθαι τὴν ἐπέλασιν. (Lucian, 62:5)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐπήλαυνεν εἰκοσάπηχύν τινα προβεβλημένοσ κοντόν, ὁ Θρᾷξ δὲ ἐπειδὴ τῇ πέλτῃ ἀπεκρούσατο τὴν προσβολὴν καὶ παρῆλθεν αὐτὸν ἡ ἀκωκή, ἐσ τὸ γόνυ ὀκλάσασ δέχεται τῇ σαρίσῃ τὴν ἐπέλασιν καὶ τιτρώσκει τὸν ἵππον ὑπὸ τὸ στέρνον ὑπὸ θυμοῦ καὶ σφοδρότητοσ διαπείραντα ἑαυτόν· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 8:3)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὴν τρίτην ἐπέλασιν δυσανασχετήσασ ὁ βασιλεὺσ, καὶ εἰπὼν πρὸσ τοὺσ παρόντασ ὡσ βέλτιόν ἐστι μὴ ζῆν, ἀντεξήλαυνε τῷ Κύρῳ προπετῶσ καὶ ἀπερισκέπτωσ εἰσ ἐναντία βέλη φερομένῳ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 10 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a charge

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

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