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ἐπιγονή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγονή

Structure: ἐπιγον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. increase, growth, produce

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

  • Παρθενοπαίου δὲ Πρόμαχοσ ἐγένετο, ὃσ μετὰ τῶν ἐπιγόνων ἐπὶ Θήβασ ἐστρατεύθη, Μηκιστέωσ δὲ Εὐρύαλοσ, ὃσ ἧκεν εἰσ Τροίαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 13:2)
  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἐκτραφῇ καὶ ἀξιοεργοὶ οἱ νεοττοὶ γένωνται, ἀποικίζει αὐτοὺσ σὺν τῶν ἐπιγόνων τινὶ ἡγεμόνι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 35:2)
  • πρώτου μὲν, ὅσα κἀμὲ εἰδέναι, τὴν Ῥωμαϊκὴν ἀρχαιολογίαν ἐπιδραμόντοσ Ιἑρωνόμου τοῦ Καρδιανοῦ συγγραφέωσ ἐν τῇ περὶ τῶν ἐπιγόνων πραγματείᾳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 6 1:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ὡσ ὑπερορώμενοί τε ἤδη πρὸσ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ ἀχρεῖοι πάντῃ ἐσ τὰ πολέμια νομιζόμενοι οὐκ ἀλόγωσ αὖ τῷ λόγῳ ἠχθέσθησαν τῷ πρὸσ Ἀλεξάνδρου λεχθέντι, κατὰ τὴν στρατιὰν ταύτην πᾶσαν πολλοῖσ καὶ ἄλλοισ ἀχθεσθέντεσ, ὅτι πολλάκισ ἤδη ἐλύπει αὐτοὺσ ἥ τε ἐσθὴσ ἡ Περσικὴ ἐσ τοῦτο φέρουσα καὶ τῶν Ἐπιγόνων τῶν βαρβάρων ἡ ἐσ τὰ Μακεδονικὰ ἤθη κόσμησισ καὶ ἀνάμιξισ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἱππέων ἐσ τὰσ τῶν ἑταίρων τάξεισ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 8 2:2)
  • ἑξῆσ δὲ τῶν ἀπογόνων τούτου βασιλευόντων καὶ τῆσ ὅλησ χώρασ ἤδη Βοιωτίασ καλουμένησ ἀπὸ Βοιωτοῦ τοῦ Μελανίππησ μὲν καὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ υἱοῦ, δυναστεύσαντοσ δὲ τῶν τόπων, τὸ τρίτον ἐκπίπτουσιν οἱ Θηβαῖοι τῶν ἐξ Ἄργουσ ἐπιγόνων ἐκπολιορκησάντων τὴν πόλιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 53 6:1)

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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