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ἐπιβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιβολή

Structure: ἐπιβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)piba/llw

Sense

  1. a throwing or laying on
  2. a hostile attempt
  3. that which is laid on, layers or courses
  4. a penalty, fine, an impost, public burden

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

  • "ὅθεν ἑκάστου τόπου χωρισθέντοσ καὶ πέρασ ἴδιον ἔχοντοσ, αἱ τῶν φωτεινῶν ἐπιβολαὶ τοῖσ σκοτεινοῖσ ὕψουσ εἰκόνα καὶ βάθουσ λαμβάνουσαι τὰσ περὶ τὰ ὄμματα καὶ τὰ χείλη εἰκόνασ φαινομένασ ὁμοιότατα διετύπωσαν ὥστ’ ἢ πλείονασ ἔξω θαλάσσασ ὑποληπτέον ἰσθμοῖσ τισι καὶ ἠπείροισ ἀπολαμβανομένασ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἄτοπον καὶ ψεῦδοσ, ἢ μιᾶσ οὔσησ, οὐ πιθανὸν εἰκόνα διεσπασμένην οὕτωσ ἐμφαίνεσθαι. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 4 1:2)
  • πλευρὰσ οὐ καταλέξαι μοῦνον εὔσημον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅπη κραίνουσι, ἐσιδεῖν Ῥηί̈διον · οὐδὲ γὰρ αἱ πρὸσ τοὺσ σπονδύλουσ συναθρώσιεσ εὐξύγκρυπτοι· δῆλαι δὲ καὶ αἱ εἰσ τὸ στέρνον ἐπιβολαί · τὰ μέσα τῶν πλευρέων κοῖλα, Ῥομβοειδέα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 154)
  • ἀμυνομένων δὲ τῶν ὑπάτων καὶ τῷ κράτει τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ἐρεθισμοί τέ τινεσ ἐγίνοντο καὶ χειρῶν ἐπιβολαί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 33 7:1)
  • καὶ ἦν πολλὴ μὲν ἔργων ἀκοσμία, πολλὴ δὲ λόγων ὕβρισ παρ’ ἀμφοῖν, ὠθισμοί τε καὶ χειρῶν ἐπιβολαί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 35 6:4)
  • ἐὰν δέ τινι εἴπῃσ "αἱ ὀρέξεισ σου φλεγμαίνουσιν, αἱ ἐκκλίσεισ ταπειναί εἰσιν, αἱ ἐπιβολαὶ ἀνομολογούμεναι, αἱ ὁρμαὶ ἀσύμφωνοι τῇ φύσει, αἱ ὑπολήψεισ εἰκαῖαι καὶ ἐψευσμέναι", εὐθὺσ ἐξελθὼν λέγει "ὕβρισέν με". (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 22:2)

Synonyms

  1. a throwing or laying on

  2. a hostile attempt

  3. a penalty

Similar forms

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

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