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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

  • οἷσ ἑξῆσ ὁ Κιθαιρὼν καὶ τὰ Θηβαίων καὶ Λαβδακιδῶν πάθη καὶ Κάδμου ἐπιδημία καὶ βοὸσ ὄκλασισ καὶ ὄφεωσ ὀδόντεσ καὶ Σπαρτῶν ἀνάδοσισ καὶ αὖθισ τοῦ Κάδμου εἰσ δράκοντα μεταβολὴ καὶ πρὸσ λύραν τείχισισ καὶ μανία τοῦ τειχοποιοῦ καὶ τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτοῦ τῆσ Νιόβησ ἡ μεγαλαυχία καὶ ἡ ἐπὶ τῷ πένθει σιγὴ καὶ τὰ Πενθέωσ καὶ Ἀκταίωνοσ καὶ τὰ Οἰδίποδοσ καὶ Ἡρακλῆσ σὺν τοῖσ ἄθλοισ αὐτοῦ ἅπασιν καὶ ἡ τῶν παίδων σφαγή. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 41:2)
  • καὶ ἐπεὶ παρῆλθεν, ὑπεξανίσταντο πάντεσ αὐτῷ καὶ ἐδεξιοῦντο ὥσ τινα τῶν κρειττόνων, καὶ ὅλωσ θεοῦ ἐπιδημία τὸ πρᾶγμα ἦν Ιὤν ὁ θαυμαστὸσ συμπαρών. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 7:3)
  • Ιὤν γοῦν ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐπιγραφομέναισ Ἐπιδημίαισ γράφει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 812)
  • τῶν δὲ χημῶν μνημονεύει Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν Ἐπιδημίαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 44 4:2)
  • καὶ ὁ Χῖοσ δὲ Ιὤν ἐν ταῖσ Ἐπιδημίαισ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 69 2:4)
  • οὐδὲν ἀκηκοὼσ ὅτ’ ἐπεδήμουν ἐγώ, ὅθεν ἅμα μὲν εἰσ ἐπιθυμίαν ᾔει τοῦ διακοῦσαι ἐναργέστερον, ἅμα δ’ ἡ φιλοτιμία κατήπειγεν αὐτόν ‐ δι’ ἃ δὲ οὐκ ἤκουσεν ἐν τῇ πρόσθεν ἐπιδημίᾳ, διεξήλθομεν ἐν τοῖσ ἄνω ῥηθεῖσιν νυνδὴ λόγοισ ‐ ἐπειδὴ δ’ οὖν οἴκαδέ τ’ ἐσώθην καὶ καλοῦντοσ τὸ δεύτερον ἀπηρνήθην, καθάπερ εἶπον νυνδή, δοκεῖ μοι Διονύσιοσ παντάπασιν φιλοτιμηθῆναι μή ποτέ τισιν δόξαιμι καταφρονῶν αὐτοῦ τῆσ φύσεώσ τε καὶ ἕξεωσ ἅμα καὶ τῆσ διαίτησ ἔμπειροσ γεγονώσ, οὐκέτ’ ἐθέλειν δυσχεραίνων παρ’ αὐτὸν ἀφικνεῖσθαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 100:1)
  • διατρίψασα δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Μεγάροισ δύ’ ἔτη, τόν τ’ ἐπ’ Ἀστείου ἄρχοντοσ καὶ Ἀλκισθένουσ ἐνιαυτόν, ὡσ αὐτῇ ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματοσ ἐργασία οὐχ ἱκανὴν εὐπορίαν παρεῖχεν ὥστε διοικεῖν τὴν οἰκίαν, πολυτελὴσ δ’ ἦν, οἱ Μεγαρεῖσ δ’ ἀνελεύθεροι καὶ μικρολόγοι, ξένων δὲ οὐ πάνυ ἐπιδημία ἦν αὐτόθι διὰ τὸ πόλεμον εἶναι καὶ τοὺσ <μὲν> Μεγαρέασ λακωνίζειν, τῆσ δὲ θαλάττησ ὑμᾶσ ἄρχειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 56:1)

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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