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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

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐσημειώσαντο τὸν τόπον, καθ’ ὃν ἐδήλου τινὰ τῶν χαλκωμάτων διὰ τῆσ συμπαθείασ, ὤρυττον ἔσωθεν ἐπικαρσίαν πρὸσ τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ἄλλην κατὰ γῆσ τάφρον ὑπὸ τὸ τεῖχοσ, στοχαζόμενοι τοῦ συμπεσεῖν ἐναντίοι τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 28 9:1)

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

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