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ἐπιδημία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδημία

Structure: ἐπιδημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pidhme/w

Sense

  1. a stay in a place

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

  • ἱστορεῖ, ὥσ φησιν Ἡγήσανδροσ, καθ’ αὑτὸν τὰσ συκαμίνουσ οὐκ ἐνεγκεῖν καρπὸν ἐτῶν εἴκοσι καὶ γενέσθαι ἐπιδημίαν ποδαγρικὴν τοσαύτην ὥστε μὴ μόνον ἄνδρασ τῷ πάθει ἐνσχεθῆναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ παῖδασ καὶ κόρασ καὶ εὐνούχουσ, ἔτι δὲ γυναῖκασ, περιπεσεῖν δὲ οὕτω τὸ δεινὸν καὶ αἰπολίῳ ὡσ τὰ δύο μέρη τῶν προβάτων ἐνσχεθῆναι τῷ αὐτῷ πάθει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 37 2:1)
  • "αὕτη ἡ Φαρσαλία ἐν Μεταποντίῳ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ μάντεων, γενομένησ φωνῆσ ἐκ τῆσ δάφνησ τῆσ χαλκῆσ ἣν ἔστησαν Μεταποντῖνοι κατὰ τὴν Ἀριστέα τοῦ Προκονησίου ἐπιδημίαν, ὅτ’ ἔφησεν ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων παραγεγονέναι, ὡσ τάχιστα ὤφθη εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐμβαλοῦσα, ἐμμανῶν γενομένων τῶν μάντεων διεσπάσθη ὑπ’ αὐτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 83 2:5)
  • Χίων ποτὲ κατ’ ἐπιδημίαν ἀπὸ δείπνου ἐμεσάντων ἐν τῷ ἐφορείῳ καὶ χεσάντων ἐπὶ τῶν δίφρων, ἔνθα οἱ ἔφοροι ἐκάθηντο, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἰσχυρῶσ ἀνεζήτουν τοὺσ ποιήσαντασ μὴ πολῖται τυγχάνωσιν· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 131)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν τῶν στεφάνων καὶ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ ὄψισ παραλογιζομένη τὴν ἐπιδημίαν ἡμῶν σιγὴν ἐποίησεν· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 31 2:1)
  • εὖ δ̓ ἴστε ὅτι ταῦτα ποιοῦσι καὶ λέγουσι βαρυνόμενοι τὴν ἐμὴν ἐπιδημίαν δἰ ἄλλο μὲν οὐδέν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a stay in a place

Related

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

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