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ἐπήλυσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: epēlysis

Principal Part: ἐπήλυσις ἐπήλυσεως

Structure: ἐπηλυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἔπηλυς

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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