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ἐπίδοσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίδοσις ἐπίδοσεως

Structure: ἐπιδοσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pidi/dwmi

Sense

  1. a giving over and above, a voluntary contribution, a "benevolence, "
  2. increase, growth, advance, progress

Declension

Third 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

  • "τὰ δὲ τῶν ἀγρίων ζῴων κρέα σχεδὸν οὐδὲ κατηξιοῦτο τιμῆσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἐπιδόσει καὶ χάριτι τὴν ἀλλαγὴν ποιοῦνται τούτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8 1:4)
  • καὶ λόγῳ τε ἐπεκόσμησεν ὅσοισ τι διαπρεπὲσ ἔργον ἐν τῇ μάχῃ ἢ αὐτὸσ ξυνέγνω εἰργασμένον ἢ ἀκοῇ συμφωνούμενον ἔμαθεν, καὶ χρημάτων ἐπιδόσει ὡσ ἑκάστουσ ξὺν τῇ ἀξίᾳ ἐτίμησεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 12 1:2)
  • οὐ μόνον δὲ ἐν τῇ τῶν χρημάτων ἐπιδόσει τοιούτουσ αὑτοὺσ παρείχοντο τοῖσ γνωρίμοισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἐπισφαλεστάτουσ καιροὺσ συνεκινδύνευον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri x, chapter 4 3:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸσ μετὰ τὴν Ἀντιόχου τελευτὴν τῶν Μακεδόνων ἀπέστη καὶ οὔτε ὡσ ὑπήκοοσ οὔτε ὡσ φίλοσ αὐτοῖσ οὐδὲν ἔτι παρεῖχεν, ἀλλ’ ἦν αὐτῷ τὰ πράγματα ἐν ἐπιδόσει πολλῇ καὶ ἀκμῇ κατὰ τοὺσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Ζαβιναίου καιρούσ, καὶ μάλιστ’ ἐπὶ τούτοισ τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 336:1)
  • ἐδέξατο δὲ αὐτοῖσ συνοίκουσ καὶ τοὺσ πανταχόθεν ἐπισυναγομένουσ ἄνδρασ ἀπόρουσ, ἔστι δ’ οὓσ μηδὲ σαφῶσ ἐλευθέρουσ, πολλά τε αὐτοὺσ κἀπὶ πολλοῖσ ἠλευθέρωσεν καὶ εὐηργέτησεν ἀνάγκασμα τοῦ μὴ ἀπολείψειν τὴν πόλιν ἐπιθείσ, κατασκευαῖσ τε οἰκήσεων τέλεσι τοῖσ αὐτοῦ καὶ γῆσ ἐπιδόσει, εἰδὼσ παράνομον τὸν οἰκισμὸν ὄντα καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ιοὐδαίοισ πατρίου διὰ τὸ ἐπὶ μνήμασιν, ἃ πολλὰ τῇδε ἦν, ἀνῃρημένοισ τὴν ἵδρυσιν τῇ Τιβεριάδι γενέσθαι· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 48:2)

Synonyms

  1. increase

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

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