Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπικάρσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικάρσιος ἐπικάρσιᾱ ἐπικάρσιον

Structure: ἐπικαρσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)gka/rsios,

Sense

  1. athwart, cross-wise, at an angle, at a right angle, measured along the coast, (at right angles to the coast), forming an angle

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὅπωσ δὲ μηδὲ ὑψουμένου τοῦ χώματοσ ἡ γῆ διαχέοιτο, πάλιν ἑτέραισ δοκοῖσ ἐπικαρσίαισ τὰσ κατὰ μῆκοσ κειμένασ διέδεον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 355:1)
  • οὗτοσ αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ κορυφῆσ τροχιλίαν εἶχεν, περιετίθετο δ’ αὐτῷ κλῖμαξ ἐπικαρσίαισ σανίσι καθηλωμένη, πλάτοσ μὲν ποδῶν τεττάρων, τὸ δὲ μῆκοσ ἓξ ὀργυιῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 22 5:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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