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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

  • ἀφρήτωρ ἀθέμιστοσ ἀνέστιόσ ἐστιν ἐκεῖνοσ, ὃσ πολέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου ὀκρυόεντοσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls26)
  • ἀρνῶν ἠδ’ ἐρίφων ἐπιδήμιοι ἁρπακτῆρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 162)
  • τῶ ὑμεῖσ στρωφᾶσθ’ ἐπιδήμιοι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 14:40)
  • οὐδ’ εὐνῆσ αἰδὼσ ἐπιδήμιοσ, ἀλλά, σύεσ ὣσ φορβάδεσ, οὐδ’ ἠβαιὸν ἀτυζόμενοι παρεόντασ, μίσγονται χαμάδισ ξυνῇ φιλότητι γυναικῶν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 17:11)
  • δὴ γάρ μιν ἔφαντ’ ἐπιδήμιον εἶναι, σὸν πατέρ’· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 18:8)
  • "ξεῖν’, ἐπεὶ ἂρ δὴ ταῦτά μ’ ἀνείρεαι ἠδὲ μεταλλᾷσ, μέλλεν μέν ποτε οἶκοσ ὅδ’ ἀφνειὸσ καὶ ἀμύμων ἔμμεναι, ὄφρ’ ἔτι κεῖνοσ ἀνὴρ ἐπιδήμιοσ ἠε͂ν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 22:2)

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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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