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ἐπιδρομή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδρομή

Structure: ἐπιδρομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pidramei=n

Sense

  1. a sudden inroad, a raid, attack, an inroad, on the sudden, off-hand
  2. a place to which ships run in, a landing-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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἄντικρυσ χαλεπὸν ἦν ἀποτρέπειν Μακεδόνασ χρημάτων ἐν ἐφικτῷ παρόντων, ἐκέλευσε θεραπεύσαντασ αὑτοὺσ καὶ τοῖσ ἵπποισ χιλὸν ἐμβαλόντασ οὕτω βαδίζειν ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, αὐτὸσ δὲ πέμπει κρύφα πρὸσ τὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀποσκευῆσ τῶν πολεμίων Μένανδρον, ὡσ κηδόμενοσ αὐτοῦ φίλου γεγονότοσ καὶ συνήθουσ, φυλάξασθαι παραινῶν καὶ ἀναχωρῆσαι τὴν ταχίστην ἐκ τῶν ἐπιδρόμων καὶ ταπεινῶν πρὸσ τὴν ἐγγὺσ ὑπώρειαν ἄφιππον οὖσαν καὶ κυκλώσεισ οὐκ ἔχουσαν. (Plutarch, chapter 9 4:1)
  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ στεφάνων ἀναδέσεισ προσίεσθαι καὶ δείπνων σοβαρωτέρων ὑποδοχάσ, ἐν οἷσ ἐσθῆτα θριαμβικὴν ἔχων ἔπινε, καὶ Νῖκαι πεποιημέναι δι’ ὀργάνων ἐπιδρόμων χρύσεα τρόπαια καὶ στεφάνουσ διαφέρουσαι κατήγοντο, καὶ χοροὶ παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν ἐπινικίουσ ὕμνουσ ᾖδον εἰσ αὐτόν. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 22 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a sudden inroad

  2. a place to which ships run in

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

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