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ἐπίβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίβασις ἐπίβασεως

Structure: ἐπιβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pibai/nw

Sense

  1. a stepping upon, approaching: a means of approach, access, means of attacking

Declension

Third 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 προσδεξαμένων δ’ αὐτὸν τῶν ἔνδον, ἀλλὰ τῷ τ’ ἐρύματι πιστευόντων ἐχυρῷ γε σφόδρα ὄντι καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ μαχησομένων παρακαλέσασ τὴν δύναμιν ἀγωνίζεσθαι προθύμωσ καὶ τοῖσ πρώτοισ ἐπιβᾶσι τοῦ τείχουσ μεγάλασ δωρεὰσ ὑποσχόμενοσ ἔργου εἴχετο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 20 2:1)
  • ὦ τὴν καλλίστην ὧν ἐφορᾷσ κατέχων πόλιν, ἥ σοι τὴν δι’ ἔτουσ πανήγυριν πληροῖ, ὦ κοινὸν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ φῶσ, ἡμῖν τε δὴ πρώην περιφανῶσ γενόμενοσ, ὅτ’ ἐπιρρεούσησ τῆσ θαλάττησ καὶ πολλῆσ πάντοθεν αἰρομένησ καὶ οὐδενὸσ ὁρωμένου πλὴν τοῦ μέλλοντοσ καὶ σχεδὸν ἤδη παρόντοσ ὀλέθρου, χεῖρα ἀντάρασ, οὐρανόν τε κεκρυμμένον ἐξέφηνασ καὶ γῆν ἔδωκασ ἰδεῖν καὶ προσορμίσασθαι, τοσοῦτον παρ’ ἐλπίδα ὥστ’ οὐδ’ ἐπιβᾶσι πίστισ ἦν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. a stepping upon

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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