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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

  • οἱ δὲ ἱππεῖσ ἅπαντεσ ἐπὶ τὸ ἀριστερὸν ἔβρισαν ὡσ τὸ δεξιὸν κυκλωσόμενοι τῶν πολεμίων καὶ λαμπρὰν περὶ αὐτὸν τὸν ἡγεμόνα ποιησόμενοι τροπήν οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀνθέξειν βάθοσ ὁπλιτικῆσ φάλαγγοσ, ἀλλὰ συντρίψεσθαι καὶ καταρράξεσθαι πάντα τοῖσ ἐναντίοισ ἐπιβολῆσ ἅμα τοσούτων ἱππέων γενομένησ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 44 3:1)
  • γενομένησ δὲ λαμπρᾶσ ἐπιβολῆσ καὶ μηδὲ τῶν ἐπὶ στρατοπέδου καρτερούντων, ἀλλὰ συντρεχόντων καὶ προσβοηθούντων, ἀπεῖπον οἱ Τύριοι· (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 25 2:3)
  • καὶ τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ ταύτησ καὶ τῆσ ἐπιβολῆσ οὐκ ἀπελείπετο τὰ τῆσ παρασκευῆσ, ἀλλὰ στρατιᾶσ μὲν ἤδη συνετέτακτο πεζῆσ μυριάδασ δέκα δισχιλίων ἀνδρῶν ἀποδεούσασ, καὶ χωρὶσ ἱππέασ ὀλίγῳ δισχιλίων καὶ μυρίων ἐλάττουσ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 43 2:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πλησίον ἦν ὁ χρόνοσ, ἀπέστησαν καὶ ταύτησ τῆσ ἐπιβολῆσ τῇ δεήσει τῶν πρεσβυτάτων τε καὶ ἐντιμοτάτων τὴν χάριν ἀνατιθέναι λέγοντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 35 6:2)
  • Ἀνδοκίδησ γὰρ ἐπειδὴ ἥμαρτεν, ἐξ ἐπιβολῆσ εἰσαχθεὶσ εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον, ἔδησεν ἑαυτὸν τιμησάμενοσ δεσμοῦ, εἰ μὴ παραδοίη τὸν ἀκόλουθον· (Lysias, Speeches, 27:2)

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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