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ἐπήρεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπήρεια

Structure: ἐπηρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. despiteful treatment, spiteful abuse, by way of insult

Declension

First 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

  • "ὦ παῖ, δοκοῦμεν ἐπηρείᾳ τινὶ τοὺσ περιηγητὰσ ἀφαιρεῖσθαι τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 7 2:1)
  • νὴ Δί’, ἀλλ’ ὕβρει καὶ ἐπηρείᾳ τινὶ τοῦτ’ ἐτέθη σοι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 42:1)
  • τὰ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσ τάφοισ τῶν Ἠπειρωτῶν παντάπασίν ἐστι φανερὸσ ἐπηρείᾳ συνθείσ, ἄνδρα Μακεδόνα θήκασ νεκρῶν ἀνελεῖν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 13:3)
  • ἐπὶ τούτῳ δὲ ἐπιβάλλουσιν οἱ Ἑλλανοδίκαι τῷ Θεαγένει τάλαντον μὲν ἱερὰν ἐσ τὸν θεὸν ζημίαν, τάλαντον δὲ βλάβησ τῆσ ἐσ Εὔθυμον, ὅτι ἐπηρείᾳ τῇ ἐσ ἐκεῖνον ἐδόκει σφίσιν ἐπανελέσθαι τὸ ἀγώνισμα τῆσ πυγμῆσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 9:1)
  • τοῖσ τε γὰρ παισὶν οὐ μετρίωσ ἐδόκει κεχρῆσθαι τῇ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐπηρείᾳ, καὶ δεινὸσ ὢν τὸν τρόπον Ἀντίπατροσ, ἐπειδὴ παρρησίασ τινὸσ τῆσ οὐ πρότερον οὔσησ ἐλπίδοσ ἀντεποιήσατο, μίαν ἔσχεν ὑπόθεσιν κακοῦ τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ μὴ παραχωρεῖν τῶν πρωτείων, ἀλλ’ ἔχεσθαι τοῦ πατρόσ, ἤδη μὲν ἠλλοτριωμένου ταῖσ διαβολαῖσ, εὐμεταχειρίστου δ’ ὄντοσ εἰσ ὅπερ ἐσπουδάκει, πολὺ χαλεπώτερον ἀεὶ γενέσθαι τοῖσ διαβεβλημένοισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 94:2)

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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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