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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

  • ἐὰν γὰρ ἀποστραφῆτε καὶ προσθῆσθε τοῖσ ὑπολειφθεῖσιν ἔθνεσι τούτοισ τοῖσ μεθ’ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐπιγαμίασ ποιήσητε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ συγκαταμιγῆτε αὐτοῖσ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑμῖν, (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 23:12)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν ῥητορικά ἐστι τοιαῦτα, ὅτι πολλὰ ἀνῄρηκεν ἢ ὑπερβέβηκεν, οἱο͂ν ὁρ́κουσ, δεξιάσ, πίστεισ, ἐπιγαμίασ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 14 5:4)
  • ἐν αἷσ καὶ ὅδε ὁ νόμοσ ἦν, μὴ ἐξεῖναι τοῖσ πατρικίοισ πρὸσ τοὺσ δημοτικοὺσ ἐπιγαμίασ συνάψαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 60 8:2)
  • οὐδ’ εἰ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐπιγαμίασ ποιήσαιντο· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 135:1)
  • πολλῶν περιοικούντων τὴν Ῥώμην ἐθνῶν μεγάλων τε καὶ τὰ πολέμια ἀλκίμων, ὧν οὐδὲν ἦν τοῖσ Ῥωμαίοισ φίλιον, οἰκειώσασθαι ταῦτα βουληθεὶσ ἐπιγαμίαισ, ὅσπερ ἐδόκει τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ τρόποσ εἶναι βεβαιότατοσ τῶν συναπτόντων φιλίασ, ἐνθυμούμενοσ δὲ ὅτι βουλόμεναι μὲν αἱ πόλεισ οὐκ ἂν συνέλθοιεν αὐτοῖσ ἄρτι τε συνοικιζομένοισ καὶ οὔτε χρήμασι δυνατοῖσ οὔτε λαμπρὸν ἔργον ἐπιδεδειγμένοισ οὐδέν, βιασθεῖσαι δὲ εἴξουσιν εἰ μηδεμία γένοιτο περὶ τὴν ἀνάγκην ὕβρισ, γνώμην ἔσχεν, ᾗ καὶ Νεμέτωρ ὁ πάπποσ αὐτοῦ προσέθετο, δἰ ἁρπαγῆσ παρθένων ἀθρόασ γενομένησ ποιήσασθαι τὰσ ἐπιγαμίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 30 2:1)

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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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