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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

  • "οὐ τρυφῆσ χάριν οὐδὲ ὕβρεωσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπηρείασ τῆσ εἰσ τοὺσ Πέρσασ τοῦτο πράττοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:15)
  • οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ πάντα καταμέμφονται καὶ πάντα τὰ παρὰ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ αὐτοῖσ συμβεβηκότα ἐξ ἐπηρείασ τύχησ καὶ δαιμόνων γενέσθαι νομίζουσι. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 301)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀφαιρεῖσθαι δεῖ τὸ προσελθεῖν τῷ δήμῳ καὶ λόγου τυχεῖν, οὐδ’ ἐν ἐπηρείασ τάξει καὶ φθόνου τοῦτο ποιεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 20:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ἐκεῖν’ οὐκ ἄδηλοσ ἐρῶν, ἐξ ὧν ἰδίᾳ πρόσ τινασ αὐτὸσ διεξιὼν ἀπηγγέλλετό μοι, ὡσ εἴπερ ἀληθῶσ ἐπεπόνθειν ταῦθ’ ἃ λέγω, δίκασ ἰδίασ μοι προσῆκεν αὐτῷ λαχεῖν, τῶν μὲν ἱματίων καὶ τῶν χρυσῶν στεφάνων τῆσ διαφθορᾶσ καὶ τῆσ περὶ τὸν χορὸν πάσησ ἐπηρείασ, βλάβησ, ὧσ δ’ εἰσ τὸ σῶμ’ ὑβρίσθαι φημί, ὕβρεωσ, οὐ μὰ Δί’ οὐχὶ δημοσίᾳ κρίνειν αὐτὸν καὶ τίμημ’ ἐπάγειν ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 35:1)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ διὰ τὰσ προϋπαρχούσασ ἔχθρασ οὐδεμιᾶσ ἐπηρείασ ἀπείχοντο κατὰ τῶν μισουμένων, ἔχοντεσ ἐξουσίαν διατιθέναι πᾶν τὸ κεχαρισμένον τῷ θυμῷ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 7 2:2)

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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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