Hellas Alive Dictionary - επιγονος

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ἐπίγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίγονος ἐπίγονον

Structure: ἐπιγον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pigi/gnomai

Sense

born besides, offspring, posterity, a breed
the afterborn
the Successors

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἐπίγονος	ἐπίγονον
	Genitive	ἐπιγόνου	ἐπιγόνου
	Dative	ἐπιγόνῳ	ἐπιγόνῳ
	Accusative	ἐπίγονον	ἐπίγονον
	Vocative	ἐπίγονε	ἐπίγονον
Dual	N/A/V	ἐπιγόνω	ἐπιγόνω
Dual	G/D	ἐπιγόνοιν	ἐπιγόνοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἐπίγονοι	ἐπίγονα
	Genitive	ἐπιγόνων	ἐπιγόνων
	Dative	ἐπιγόνοις	ἐπιγόνοις
	Accusative	ἐπιγόνους	ἐπίγονα
	Vocative	ἐπίγονοι	ἐπίγονα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἐπίγονος ἐπιγόνου	ἐπιγονώτερος ἐπιγονωτέρου	ἐπιγονώτατος ἐπιγονωτάτου
Adverb	ἐπιγόνως	ἐπιγονώτερον	ἐπιγονώτατα

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

ἔτεσι δὲ οὐ πολλοῖσ ὕστερον ὁμοῦ Θερσάνδρῳ στρατευούσιν ἐπὶ τὰσ Θήβασ, οὓσ Ἐπιγόνουσ καλοῦσιν Ἕλληνεσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section23)
Ἧκον δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ οἱ σατράπαι οἱ ἐκ τῶν πόλεών τε τῶν νεοκτίστων καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ γῆσ τῆσ δοριαλώτου παῖδασ ἡβάσκοντασ ἤδη ἐσ τρισμυρίουσ ἄγοντεσ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡλικίαν γεγονότασ, οὓσ Ἐπιγόνουσ ἐκάλει Ἀλέξανδροσ, κεκοσμημένουσ Μακεδονικοῖσ ὅπλοισ καὶ τὰ πολέμια ἐσ τὸν τρόπον τὸν Μακεδονικὸν ἠσκημένουσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 6 1:1)
οἱ μὲν γὰρ εἰσ τὰσ Φιλίππου πράξεισ, οἱ δ’ εἰσ τὰσ Ἀλεξάνδρου, τινὲσ δ’ εἰσ τοὺσ διαδόχουσ ἢ τοὺσ ἐπιγόνουσ κατέστρεψαν τὰσ συντάξεισ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 3 3:2)
ἔτεσι δὲ οὐ πολλοῖσ ὕστερον ὁμοῦ Θερσάνδρῳ στρατεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὰσ Θήβασ οὓσ Ἐπιγόνουσ καλοῦσιν Ἕλληνεσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 5:1)
ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἔργου καὶ τοὺσ Ἐπιγόνουσ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων καλουμένουσ ἀνέθεσαν οἱ Ἀργεῖοι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 7:2)

Synonyms

the Successors
- ἔφεδρος (a successor)

φλεγύης (fiery red)
Ἔλυμος (one of the Elymi)
αὐτόχθων (sprung from the land itself)
Ἀνακτόριος (an inhabitant of Anactorium)
δεκαέτηρος (ten-yearly)
Ἰλιακός (Ilian)
Ποτιδαιάτης (an inhabitant of Potidaea)
ἠπειρωτικός (continental)
Ἀμφικτυονία (the Amphictyonic League)
πενταέτηρος (five years old)
αὐτόχθονος (country and all)
λόγιμος (worth mention)
ἀζάνω (to dry)
τετράρχης (a tetrarch)
ἐφορεία (the ephoralty)
Θεσπρωτός (an inhabitant of Thesprotia)
Ἡράκλειδαι (the Heraclidae or descendants of Hercules)
κτίστης (a founder)
Ὀπικοί (the Opici)
διώνυμος (with two names)
δυναστεύω (to hold power or lordship)
Ἀχαρναί (Acharnae)
φλέγρα (Phlegra)
ἀλέξω (I keep off)
ξουθός (yellowish)
νεάπολις (a new city)
Φωκικός (Phocian)
Δωριεύς (a Dorian)
Κάρπαθος (Carpathus)
λιθόλευστος (stoned with stones)

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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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Sense

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the Successors

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