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ἐπικήδειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικήδειος

Structure: ἐπικηδει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kh=dos

Sense

  1. of or at a burial, funeral, a dirge, elegy

Examples

  • ἀμφί μοι Ἴλιον, ὦ Μοῦσα, καινῶν ὕμνων ἀείσον ἐν δακρύοισ ᾠδὰν ἐπικήδειον· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὁ δὲ τῷ Πινδάρῳ ποιήσασ τὸ ἐπικήδειον ἄρμενοσ ἦν ξείνοισιν ἀνὴρ ὅδε καὶ φίλοσ ἀστοῖσ εὐαρμοστίαν δῆλόσ ἐστι τὴν ἀρετὴν ἡγούμενοσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 33 10:1)
  • ἀλλὰ Συβαρίταισ μέν ἐκτετηκόσιν ὑπὸ τρυφῆσ καὶ μαλακίασ διὰ τὴν πρόσ τὸ καλὸν ὁρμὴν καὶ φιλοτιμίαν εἰκότωσ ἐφαίνοντο μισεῖν τὸν βίον οἱ μὴ φοβούμενοι τὸν θάνατον, Λακεδαιμονίοισ δὲ καὶ ζῆν ἡδέωσ καὶ θνῄσκειν ἀμφότερα ἀρετὴ παρεῖχεν, ὡσ δηλοῖ τὸ ἐπικήδειον· (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 1 3:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Εὐριπίδησ μετὰ τὴν ἧτταν αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν ὄλεθρον γράφων ἐπικήδειον ἐποίησεν· (Plutarch, , chapter 17 4:1)
  • Ὄλυμπον γὰρ πρῶτον Ἀριστόξενοσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Μουσικῆσ ἐπὶ τῷ Πύθωνί φησιν ἐπικήδειον αὐλῆσαι Λυδιστί. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 15 3:1)

Related

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

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