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ἐπίβλεψις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίβλεψις ἐπίβλεψεως

Structure: ἐπιβλεψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pible/pw

Sense

  1. a looking at, gazing

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

  • ἅμα δὲ τῇ λαμπρότητι τῆσ φωνῆσ τοῦ περὶ τὴν ποίησιν ὄγκου συμπρέψαντοσ ἐπίβλεψιν γενέσθαι τοῦ θεάτρου πανταχόθεν εἰσ τὸν Φιλοποίμενα καὶ κρότον μετὰ χαρᾶσ, τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὸ παλαιὸν ἀξίωμα ταῖσ ἐλπίσιν ἀναλαμβανόντων καὶ τοῦ τότε φρονήματοσ ἔγγιστα τῷ θαρρεῖν γινομένων. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 11 3:1)
  • ἡ δὲ ναυμαχία πολὺ μεγίστη καὶ καρτερωτάτη γενομένη, καὶ μηδὲν ἐλάττονα πάθη καὶ θορύβουσ παρασχοῦσα τοῖσ θεωμένοισ ἢ τοῖσ ἀγωνιζομένοισ διὰ τὴν παντὸσ ἐπίβλεψιν τοῦ ἔργου ποικίλασ μεταβολὰσ καὶ ἀπροσδοκήτουσ ἐν ὀλίγῳ λαμβάνοντοσ, ἔβλαπτε ταῖσ αὐτῶν παρασκευαῖσ οὐχ ἧττον τῶν πολεμίων τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 25 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a looking at

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

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