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ἐπήκοος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: epēkoos

Principal Part: ἐπήκοος

Structure: ἐπηκο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. listening or giving ear to
  2. within hearing, within ear-shot

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

  • ἔλαθεν οὖν αὐτοὺς οἰκέτης ὄνομα Οὐινδίκιος ἔνδον κατακρύψας ἑαυτόν, οὐ κατ ἐπιβουλὴν ἢ προαίσθησίν τινα τοῦ μέλλοντος, ἀλλ ἔνδον ὢν ἔτυχε καὶ προσιοῦσιν αὐτοῖς μετὰ σπουδῆς ὀφθῆναι φοβηθείς ὑπέστη, λάρνακα κειμένην πρὸ αὑτοῦ ποιησάμενος, ὥστε καὶ τῶν πραττομένων θεατὴς γενέσθαι καὶ τῶν βουλευμάτων ἐπήκοος. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 4 1:3)
  • ἐπεὶ καθιππάζῃ με πρεσβῦτιν νέος, δίκης γενέσθαι τῆσδ ἐπήκοος μένω, ὡς ἀμφίβουλος οὖσα θυμοῦσθαι πόλει. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 10:14)
  • ἐπήκοος δ ἐμῶν ἔργων δικαστὴς τραχὺς εἶ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 1 1:4)
  • Ἄρτεμις ἀμφοτέροισιν ἐπήκοος, ἥ τε λοχείης μαῖα, καὶ ἀργεννῶν φωσφόρος ἡ σελάων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 46 1:1)
  • μούναις οὔ τι γυναιξὶν ἐπήκοος, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὰς συνθήρους σῴζειν Ἄρτεμις οἶδε κύνας. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3032)

Synonyms

  1. listening or giving ear to

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

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