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ἐπίγραμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίγραμμα ἐπίγραμματος

Structure: ἐπιγραμματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)pigra/fw

Sense

  1. an inscription, an epigram
  2. a written estimate

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίγραμμα ἐπιγράμματε ἐπιγράμματα
Genitive ἐπιγράμματος ἐπιγραμμάτοιν ἐπιγραμμάτων
Dative ἐπιγράμματι ἐπιγραμμάτοιν ἐπιγράμμασιν*
Accusative ἐπίγραμμα ἐπιγράμματε ἐπιγράμματα
Vocative ἐπίγραμμα ἐπιγράμματε ἐπιγράμματα

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

  • φημὶ πολυστιχίην ἐπιγράμματοσ οὐ κατὰ Μούσασ εἶναι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3421)
  • ἔστι τοίνυν τισ πρόχειροσ λόγοσ, ὡσ ἄρα καὶ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τῶν προγόνων πόλλ’ ἀγάθ’ εἰργασμένοι τινὲσ οὐδενὸσ ἠξιοῦντο τοιούτου, ἀλλ’ ἀγαπητῶσ ἐπιγράμματοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἑρμαῖσ ἔτυχον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 149:1)
  • σκέψαι τοίνυν τὸν τοῦ ἑταίρου σου λόγον εἴτε οὕτωσ εἴτε ἄλλωσ ἔχει, καὶ εὑρήσεισ τοῦ ἐπιγράμματοσ οὐδὲν διαφέροντα, ὃ Μίδᾳ τῷ Φρυγί φασίν τινεσ ἐπιγεγράφθαι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 251:2)
  • " τοιοῦτοσ ἦν ὁ τὴν ἡδονὴν εἶναι τέλοσ δογματίζων, ὃν καὶ Ἀθήναιοσ δι’ ἐπιγράμματοσ οὕτωσ ὑμνεῖ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 11:9)
  • πέμπτῳ δὲ καὶ ἕκτῳ, τῷ μέν ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ ἐπιγράμματοσ γνώμη τά τε ἄλλα ἐσ ἔπαινον Ἠλείων καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ἐπὶ τῇ ζημίᾳ τῶν πυκτῶν, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ ὑπολοίπῳ διδασκαλίαν πᾶσιν Ἕλλησιν εἶναι τὰ ἀγάλματα μηδένα ἐπὶ Ὀλυμπικῇ νίκῃ διδόναι χρήματα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. an inscription

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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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