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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

  • Ἀθηνόδωρον, ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ τῶν Ἐπιδημιῶν ἱστοροῦντα πρῶτον ἐν τοῖσ κατ’ Ἀσκληπιάδην χρόνοισ οὐ μόνον τὴν ἐλεφαντίασιν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ὑδροφόβαν ἐκφανῆ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 2:1)

Related

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

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