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ἐπίξηνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίξηνον ἐπίξηνου

Structure: ἐπιξην (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: chno/s

Sense

  1. a chopping-block: the executioner's block

Declension

Second 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

  • τί οὖν οὐ λέγεισ, ἐπίξηνον ἐξενεγκὼν θύραζ’, ὅ τι ποτ’ ὦ σχέτλιε τὸ μέγα τοῦτ’ ἔχεισ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, strophe 11)
  • ἰδοὺ θεᾶσθε, τὸ μὲν ἐπίξηνον τοδί, ὁ δ’ ἀνὴρ ὁ λέξων οὑτοσὶ τυννουτοσί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics1)
  • βωμοῦ πατρῴου δ’ ἀντ’ ἐπίξηνον μένει, θερμῷ κοπείσησ φοινίῳ προσφάγματι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:25)

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

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