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ἐπήλυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπήλυσις ἐπήλυσεως

Structure: ἐπηλυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/phlus

Sense

  1. an approach, assault

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

  • καὶ γάρ, ὡσ ἐγὼ κλύω, χρηστήριον πέπτωκε τοῖσ ἐπήλυσι κοινὸν πρὸ ναοῦ· (Euripides, Ion, episode 5:16)
  • ὥσθ’ ὑμεῖσ, κατὰ νόμων ἀνάγκην οὐχ ἑκούσιον οὐδὲ βουλομένην ἀλλὰ δουλεύουσαν ἔθεσι καὶ ψόγοισ καὶ δόξαισ ἐπήλυσι καὶ λόγοισ πλαττομένην, μελετᾶτε ἀνδρείαν καὶ τοὺσ πόνουσ ὑφίστασθε καὶ τοὺσ κινδύνουσ, οὐ πρὸσ ταῦτα θαρροῦντεσ ἀλλὰ τῷ ἕτερα μᾶλλον τούτων δεδιέναι. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 4 17:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τὴν μὲν σύνεγγυσ τῇ πόλει χώραν κατεκληρούχουν ἑαυτοῖσ, τὴν δὲ πόρρω κειμένην τοῖσ ἐπήλυσι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 11 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. an approach

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

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