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ἐπιγαμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγαμία

Structure: ἐπιγαμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. intermarriage

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

  • ἐσ δὲ τὸν Ἀρμένιον αὐτῷ καὶ ἐπιγαμία γέγονε, καὶ ἐσ Αἴγυπτον καὶ Συρίαν περιπέμπει προσεταιριζόμενοσ τοὺσ βασιλέασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 6:8)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ κατανοεῖσθαι πονηρὸν ὄντα ἦν ἡ ἐπιγαμία τεῖχοσ, ὥσπερ οὐδ’ ἡ πρότερον συγγένεια πρὸσ τὸ οὐ μεμισῆσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 11:3)
  • μὴ γὰρ καλῶσ ἔχειν ἀναιρεῖν ἄνδρα γένουσ τε ὄντα τοῦ πρώτου παρὰ Παρθυαίοισ καὶ ἐπιγαμίᾳ τῇ πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα μειζόνωσ τιμώμενον· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 420:2)

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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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