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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

  • κἄν γε μὴ λέγω δίκαια μηδὲ τῷ πλήθει δοκῶ, ὑπὲρ ἐπιξήνου ’θελήσω τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχων λέγειν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees11)
  • δεινὸν γὰρ οὕτωσ ὀμφακίαν πεφυκέναι τὸν θυμὸν ἀνδρῶν ὥστε βάλλειν καὶ βοᾶν ἐθέλειν τ’ ἀκοῦσαι μηδὲν ἴσον ἴσῳ φέρον, ἐμοῦ ’θέλοντοσ ὑπὲρ ἐπιξήνου λέγειν ὑπὲρ Λακεδαιμονίων ἅπανθ’ ὅσ’ ἂν λέγω· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene3)
  • 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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