Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιδήμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδήμιος ἐπιδήμιον

Structure: ἐπιδημι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dh=mos

Sense

  1. among the people, of one's own countrymen, civil war, at home, resident

Examples

  • ἀρνῶν ἠδ’ ἐρίφων ἐπιδήμιοι ἁρπακτῆρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 162)
  • τῶ ὑμεῖσ στρωφᾶσθ’ ἐπιδήμιοι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 14:40)
  • τοὺσ μὲν ἀπώλεσ’ Ἄρησ, τὰ δ’ ἐλέγχεα πάντα λέλειπται ψεῦσταί τ’ ὀρχησταί τε χοροιτυπίῃσιν ἄριστοι ἀρνῶν ἠδ’ ἐρίφων ἐπιδήμιοι ἁρπακτῆρεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 22:8)
  • σῶμα μὲν δὴ τοῦ κτήνεοσ δείρουσι, κεφαλῇ δὲ κείνῃ πολλὰ καταρησάμενοι φέρουσι, τοῖσι μὲν ἂν ᾖ ἀγορὴ καὶ Ἕλληνέσ σφι ἐώσι ἐπιδήμιοι ἔμποροι, οἳ δὲ φέροντεσ ἐσ τὴν ἀγορὴν ἀπ’ ὦν ἔδοντο, τοῖσι δὲ ἂν μὴ παρέωσι Ἕλληνεσ, οἳ δ’ ἐκβάλλουσι ἐσ τὸν ποταμόν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 39 3:1)

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

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