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ἐπικουρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικουρία

Structure: ἐπικουρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)pikoure/w

Sense

  1. aid, succour
  2. an auxiliary or mercenary force

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπικουρία ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίαι
Genitive ἐπικουρίᾱς ἐπικουρίαιν ἐπικουριῶν
Dative ἐπικουρίᾱͅ ἐπικουρίαιν ἐπικουρίαις
Accusative ἐπικουρίᾱν ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίᾱς
Vocative ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίᾱ ἐπικουρίαι

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

  • ἐπικουρίαι γὰρ αἵδε τοῖσ φίλοισ καλαί. (Euripides, episode 4:10)
  • Παυσανίαν γὰρ τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῶν προδιδόντα τῷ Πέρσῃ τὴν Ἑλλάδα λαβόντεσ, ἐπειδὴ ἔφθασε καταφυγὼν εἰσ τὸ τῆσ Χαλκιοίκου ἱερόν, τὴν θύραν ἀποικοδομήσαντεσ, καὶ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀποσκευάσαντεσ, καὶ κύκλῳ περιστρατοπεδεύσαντεσ, οὐ πρότερον ἀπῆλθον πρὶν ἢ τῷ λιμῷ ἀπέκτειναν, καὶ πᾶσιν ἐπίσημον ἐποίησαν τὴν τιμωρίαν, ὅτι οὐδ’ αἱ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν ἐπικουρίαι τοῖσ προδόταισ βοηθοῦσιν, εἰκότωσ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 178:4)
  • ἀποκτείνασ δὲ πολλοὺσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν λείαν ὅσην ἦγον ἀφελόμενοσ ἐγγὺσ τῆσ ἐκείνων παρεμβολῆσ τίθεται τὸν χάρακα καὶ διαλιπὼν ὀλίγασ τινὰσ ἡμέρασ, ἑώσ ἥ τε λοιπὴ δύναμισ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀφίκετο καὶ αἱ παρὰ τῶν συμμάχων ἐπικουρίαι συνήχθησαν, κατέβαινεν εἰσ τὸ πεδίον ὡσ μαχησόμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 63 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. aid

  2. an auxiliary or mercenary force

Related

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

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