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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

  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ θρηνῳδία καὶ ὁ ἐπικήδειοσ αὐλὸσ ἐν ἀρχῇ πάθοσ κινεῖ καὶ δάκρυον ἐκβάλλει, προάγων δὲ τὴν ψυχὴν εἰσ οἶκτον οὕτω κατὰ μικρὸν ἐξαιρεῖ καὶ ἀναλίσκει τὸ λυπητικόν ὁμοίωσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 4:9)

Related

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

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