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ἐπιβολή?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: epibolē

Principal Part: ἐπιβολή

Structure: ἐπιβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

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

  • τίς δὲ τὸν Ἀρεοπαγιτικὸν ἀναγνοὺς λόγον οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο κοσμιώτερος, ἢ τίς οὐκ ἂν θαυμάσειε τὴν ἐπιβολὴν τοῦ ῥήτορος· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 81)
  • ἢ παρακαλέσαιμεν δηλαδὴ τοὺς γραφέας, καὶ μάλιστα ὁπόσοι αὐτῶν ἄριστοι ἐγένοντο κεράσασθαι τὰ χρώματα καὶ εὔκαιρον ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἐπιβολὴν αὐτῶν· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 7:6)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα τῆς γραφῆς, ἐφ᾿ ὅσα τοῖς ἰδιώταις ἡμῖν οὐ πάντη ἐμφανῆ ὄντα τὴν ὅλην ὅμως ἔχει δύναμιν τῆς τέχνης, οἱο῀ν τὸ ἀποτεῖναι τὰς γραμμὰς ἐς τὸ εὐθύτατον καὶ τῶν χρωμάτων ἀκριβῆ τὴν κρᾶσιν καὶ εὔκαιρον τὴν ἐπιβολὴν ποιήσασθαι καὶ σκιάσαι ἐς δέον καὶ τοῦ μεγέθους τὸν λόγον καὶ τὴν τῶν μερῶν πρὸς τὸ ὅλον ἰσότητα καὶ ἁρμονίαν γραφέων παῖδες ἐπαινούντων, οἷς ἔργον εἰδέναι τὰ τοιαῦτα: (Lucian, Zeuxis 9:1)
  • ὅτι τὴν θύραν ἀνέῳξεν ἡ σηκὶς λάθρᾳ, ταύτης ἐπιβολὴν ψηφιεῖ μίαν μόνην. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode12)
  • σὺ μέντοι πάνυ μεμψίμοιρος εἶναί μοι δοκεῖς, ὃς νῦν μὲν τὸν Τίμωνα αἰτιᾷ, διότι σοι τὰς θύρας ἀναπετάσας ἠφίει περινοστεῖν ἐλευθέρως οὔτε ἀποκλείων οὔτε ζηλοτυπῶν ἄλλοτε δὲ τοὐναντίον ἠγανάκτεις κατὰ τῶν πλουσίων κατακεκλεῖσθαι λέγων πρὸς αὐτῶν ὑπὸ μοχλοῖς καὶ κλεισὶ καὶ σημείων ἐπιβολαῖς, ὡς μηδὲ παρακύψαι σοι ἐς τὸ φῶς δυνατὸν εἶναι. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 13:3)
  • οὕτω γὰρ πολιτικῶς προάγοιτο ὁ λόγος, εἰ παρακολουθοῖεν οἱ ἀκούοντες τοῖς ζητήμασιν, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀφελεῖ οὐ τοῦτό ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ κεκρυμμέναι ἐνίοτε εἰσὶν αἱ ζητήσεις, καὶ οὐδὲ οἶδέ τις τί βούλεται λέγειν ὁ λέγων διὰ τὸ μηδεμιᾷ ἐπιβολῇ ἐοικέναι τὸν λόγον. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 1 5:4)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν ἀρκοῦμαι, ἂν ὀρέγωμαι καὶ ἐκκλίνω κατὰ φύσιν, ἂν ὁρμῇ καὶ ἀφορμῇ χρῶμαι ὡς πέφυκα, ἂν προ[ς]θέσει, ἂν ἐπιβολῇ, ἂν συγκαταθέσει. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 2:2)
  • ἀλλὰ διαθήκην μὲν οὐ γράφει μὴ εἰδὼς πῶς δεῖ γράφειν ἢ παραλαβὼν τὸν εἰδότα οὐδ ἐγγύην ἄλλως σφραγίζεται ἢ ἀσφάλειαν γράφει, ὀρέξει δὲ χρῆται δίχα νομικοῦ καὶ ἐκκλίσει καὶ ὁρμῇ καὶ ἐπιβολῇ καὶ προθέσει. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 7:1)
  • διὰ τί οὖν οὐκ ἀνύετε τὸ ἔργον, εἰ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔχετ ἐπιβολὴν οἱάν δεῖ κἀγὼ πρὸς τῇ ἐπιβολῇ καὶ παρασκευὴν οἱάν δεῖ· (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 30:1)
  • Ἴδε κυνικαὶ φωναί, ἴδε χαρακτήρ, ἴδ ἐπιβολή. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 49:3)

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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