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ἐπιφορά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιφορά

Structure: ἐπιφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)pife/rw

Sense

  1. a bringing to or besides: a donative, addition made to one's pay

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

  • "εἰ μή τισ ἄρα τῇ διελάσει φαίη τὸν ἧλον ἐφ’ ἑαυτὸν τὰ ὑγρὰ συνάγειν, ἐπιφορᾶσ ἀεὶ γιγνομένησ πρὸσ τὸ πάσχον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:39)
  • Εἶναι δὲ τὸν λόγον αὐτὸν σύστημα ἐκ λημμάτων καὶ ἐπιφορᾶσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 45:3)
  • Λόγοσ δέ ἐστιν, ὡσ οἱ περὶ τὸν Κρῖνίν φασι, τὸ συνεστηκὸσ ἐκ λήμματοσ καὶ προσλήψεωσ καὶ ἐπιφορᾶσ, οἱο͂ν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ, "εἰ ἡμέρα ἐστί, φῶσ ἐστι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 76:3)
  • ἀπέραντοι μὲν ὧν τὸ ἀντικείμενον τῆσ ἐπιφορᾶσ οὐ μάχεται τῇ διὰ τῶν λημμάτων συμπλοκῇ, οἱο͂ν οἱ τοιοῦτοι, "εἰ ἡμέρα ἐστί, φῶσ ἐστι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 77:7)
  • τῶν δὲ Νομάδων κυκλωσάντων καὶ κατόπιν ἐπιπεσόντων, οἱ μὲν πεζακοντισταὶ τὸ πρῶτον διαφυγόντεσ τὴν σύμπτωσιν τῶν ἱππέων τότε συνεπατήθησαν ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ καὶ τῆσ ἐπιφορᾶσ τῶν Νομάδων· (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 65 10:1)
  • παραλόγου συμφορᾶσ, καὶ συμπαθεῖν δ’ ἦν 10 ἀναγκαῖον οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ βέλτιστοι τῶν ἰατρῶν πρὸσ τὰσ ἀθρόασ τῶν ῥευμάτων ἐπιφορὰσ εὐθὺσ· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 1 3:1)
  • καὶ παρέτρεψεν εἰσ δεινὰσ καὶ ἀλλοκότουσ ἐπιφοράσ, πράξεων ἀτόπων καὶ σὺν αἰσχύνῃ παθῶν ὀλεθρίων ὀρεγόμενον, ὥστε τὸν θάνατον αὐτῷ, καίπερ ὄντι νέῳ καὶ ἀνθοῦντι, μὴ συμφοράν, ἀλλ’ ἀπόλυσιν κακῶν καὶ σωτηρίαν γενέσθαι, δίκασ γε μὴν ὁ Φίλιπποσ οὐ μεμπτὰσ Διὶ ξενίῳ καὶ φιλίῳ τῆσ ἀνοσιουργίασ ταύτησ τίνων διετέλεσε, καταπολεμηθεὶσ μὲν γὰρ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἐπέτρεψεν ἐκείνοισ τὰ καθ’ αὑτόν, ἐκπεσὼν δὲ τῆσ ἄλλησ ἀρχῆσ καὶ τὰσ ναῦσ; (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 54 1:3)

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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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