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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

  • καὶ τῇ τετάρτῃ ὡσαύτωσ ἀπ̓ ἄλλησ μηχανῆσ ἄλλη ἐπιβάθρα αὐτῷ προσήγετο πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 27 1:2)
  • Οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι μάχην ἔτι προσδοκῶντεσ, ὑπὸ τὴν ἑώ διασκευασάμενοι καὶ τὰσ ἀπὸ τῶν χωμάτων ἐφόδουσ ταῖσ ἐπιβάθραισ γεφυρώσαντεσ προσβολὴν ἐποιοῦντο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 449:1)
  • ἄλλοι δ’ ἁλιευτικὰ δίκτυα τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιβαθρῶν διαμαχομένοισ ἐπιρριπτοῦντεσ καὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ ἀχρήστουσ ποιοῦντεσ κατέσπων καὶ περιεκύλιον ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐπιβάθρασ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 43 10:1)
  • νῦν δ’ ἴθι, καὶ τήνδ’ ἧμιν, Ἑκηβόλε, δέξο θυηλήν, ἥν τοι τῆσδ’ ἐπίβαθρα χάριν προτεθείμεθα νηὸσ πρωτίστην· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:15)

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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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