Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπήν

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Principal Part: ἐπήν

Etym.: v. e)pei/ A. II.

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Examples

  • ἐπὴν δ’ εἰσ ἄκρον ἵκηται, ῥηιδίη δὴ ἔπειτα πέλει, χαλεπή περ ἐοῦσα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 35:6)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν δὴ πάντα βίον κατάθηαι ἐπάρμενον ἔνδοθι οἴκου, θῆτά τ’ ἀοίκον ποιεῖσθαι καὶ ἄτεκνον ἔριθον δίζησθαι κέλομαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 66:3)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν δὴ Πληιάδεσ θ’ Υἅδεσ τε τό τε σθένοσ Ωἀρίωνοσ δύνωσιν, τότ’ ἔπειτ’ ἀρότου μεμνημένοσ εἶναι ὡραίου· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 68:3)
  • ἐπὴν διαλλαγῆτε, ταῦτα δράσετε. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 2:18)
  • γῇ δ’ ἐπὴν κρύψῃσ νεκρούσ, οἴκει πόλιν τήνδ’, ἀθλίωσ μέν, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ ψυχὴν βιάζου τἀμὰ συμφέρειν κακά. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:15)
  • οὐδέ τι δειλὸν γῆρασ ἐπῆν, αἰεὶ δὲ πόδασ καὶ χεῖρασ ὁμοῖοι τέρποντ’ ἐν θαλίῃσι κακῶν ἔκτοσθεν ἁπάντων· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 16:4)

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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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