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ἐπιβάθρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιβάθρα

Structure: ἐπιβαθρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)pibai/nw

Sense

  1. a ladder or steps, a means of approach, towards . .

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

  • ὡσ δὲ πρῶτον ἐδόκει πλεῖν ἐπὶ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, τῶν φίλων εἰπόντοσ τινὸσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀντίγονον ὅτι δεῖ ταύτην τὴν πόλιν, ἂν ἕλωσι, κατέχειν δἰ αὑτῶν, ἐπιβάθραν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ οὖσαν, οὐ προσέσχεν ὁ Ἀντίγονοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπιβάθραν μὲν ἔφη καλὴν καὶ ἀσάλευτον εἶναι τὴν εὔνοιαν, τὰσ δὲ Ἀθήνασ, ὥσπερ σκοπὴν τῆσ οἰκουμένησ, ταχὺ τῇ δόξῃ διαπυρσεύειν εἰσ ἅπαντασ ἀνθρώπουσ τὰσ πράξεισ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 8 2:1)
  • ἀναγκαῖον γὰρ ἔστιν ὅτ’ αἰτῆσαί τινα ὑπόθεσιν ὥσπερ ἐπιβάθραν τῷ ἑξῆσ λόγῳ. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 21:2)
  • ἂν δ’ ἔχῃ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τοῦ λοιδορουμένου ὁ λοιδορῶν ἐπιβάθραν, τότε ἀνύει τι. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 29:5)
  • οὐ μὴν οὔτε βέβαιον οὔτε αὔταρκεσ ἐδόκει τοῦτο τὸ μέτρον εἶναι τοῖσ μηχανήμασιν εἰσ ἐπιβάθραν, ἀλλ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ βῆμα λίθων μεγάλων συνηρμοσμένων ἐποιήθη πεντήκοντα πήχεων εὖρόσ τε καὶ ὕψοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 349:1)

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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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