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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

  • ὢ τοῦ θώματοσ, ἐπὶ πᾶσι πάσχει Ῥῖνασ, καὶ ὦτα, καὶ χείλεα, πάντη γὰρ νεῦρα καὶ μύεσ· τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ἤλγεέ τισ Ῥαφὰσ, οὐκ εἰδὼσ μὲν ὅ τι πονέει, ἐδείκνυε τῶν Ῥαφῶν τὰ εἴδεα, λοξὴν, εὐθείην, ἐπικάρσιον , ὀπίσω τε καὶ πρόσω· ἰσχνὴν δὲ τὴν ὀδύνην καὶ τοῖσι ὀστέοισι ἐμπεπαρμένην. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 327)
  • Τῇ δ’ ὑστεραίῃ ἡμέρῃ, ἐπειδὰν ἐξέλῃσ τὸν μοτὸν, κατιδὼν τὸ ὀστέον ὅ τι πέπονθεν, ἐὰν μή σοι καταφανὴσ ᾖ ἡ τρῶσισ, ὁκοίη τίσ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ, μηδὲ διαγινώσκῃσ εἴ τέ τι ἔχει τὸ ὀστέον κακὸν ἐν ἑωυτέῳ, ἢ καὶ οὐκ ἔχει, τὸ δὲ βέλοσ δοκέῃ ἀφικέσθαι ἐσ τὸ ὀστέον καὶ σίνασθαι, ἐπιξύειν χρὴ τῷ ξυστῆρι κατὰ βάθοσ καὶ κατὰ μῆκοσ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὡσ πέφυκε, καὶ αὖθισ ἐπικάρσιον τὸ ὀστέον, τῶν Ῥηξίων εἵνεκα τῶν ἀφανέων ἰδεῖν, καὶ τῆσ φλάσιοσ εἵνεκα τῆσ ἀφανέοσ, τῆσ οὐκ ἐσφλωμένησ ἔσω ἐκ τῆσ φύσιοσ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ ἄλλου ὀστέου. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.3)
  • γενομένων δὲ τῶν ὁρ́κων ὁ μὲν Πόντιοσ παραλύσασ τι τοῦ διατειχίσματοσ, καὶ δυσὶ δόρασιν ἐσ τὴν γῆν ἐμπεπηγόσιν ἐπικάρσιον ἄλλο ἐπιθείσ, ἐξέπεμπε Ῥωμαίων ἕκαστον ὑπὸ τούτῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8:5)
  • ὁ δὲ Κάσσιοσ κατεπλάγη μὲν τοῦ ἔργου τὴν ἐπίνοιάν τε καὶ κλοπήν, ἀντεπινοῶν δὲ ἀποτεμέσθαι τὰ φρούρια τὸν Ἀντώνιον, διετείχιζε καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐπικάρσιον τὸ ἕλοσ ἅπαν, ἀρχόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου μέχρι τῆσ θαλάσσησ, κόπτων ὁμοίωσ καὶ γεφυρῶν καὶ τὸν χάρακα τοῖσ στεριφώμασιν ἐπιτιθεὶσ καὶ τὴν ὑπὸ Ἀντωνίου γεγενημένην δίοδον ἀπολαμβάνων, ἵνα μήτε ἐκδραμεῖν ἐσ αὐτὸν οἱ ἔνδον ἔτι δυνηθεῖεν μήτε ἐκεῖνοσ αὐτοῖσ ἐπιβοηθεῖν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 14 3:6)
  • ὥστε γίνεσθαι καὶ ταύτην ἄλλην διὰ μέσων τῶν στρατοπέδων δίοδον, ἐπικάρσιον μὲν πρὸσ τὰσ ῥύμασ, παράλληλον δὲ ταῖσ τῶν χιλιάρχων σκηναῖσ, ἣν καλοῦσι πέμπτην διὰ τὸ παρὰ τὰ πέμπτα τάγματα παρήκειν. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 30 6:1)

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

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