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ἐπικρατής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικρατής ἐπικρατές

Structure: ἐπικρατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kra/tos

Sense

  1. master of, superior, with overwhelming might, impetuously

Examples

  • ναί, παρ’ Ἐπικράτει, ἐν τῇδε τῇ πλησίον τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου οἰκίᾳ τῇ Μορυχίᾳ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 3:3)
  • δότωσαν δὲ οἱ ἐπιμεληταὶ Ἐπικράτει πεντακοσίασ δραχμὰσ καὶ τῶν παίδων ἕνα ὃν ἂν δοκῇ Ἀρκεσιλάῳ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. g'. STRATWN 5:6)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πολλοὺσ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἀπώλλυεν ἐνέδραισ περιπίπτων, ἀπῆρεν εἰσ Τρίπολιν Καλλιμάνδρῳ καὶ Ἐπικράτει τὸν πρὸσ τοὺσ Ιοὐδαίουσ πόλεμον ἐπιτρέψασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 13 343:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἤκουσαν, ὅτι Σίμων ὁ ἀδελφὸσ αὐτοῦ γέγονεν ἀντ̓ αὐτοῦ ἀρχιερεὺσ καὶ ἐπικρατεῖ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τῶν πόλεων τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:17)
  • διακρίνομεν δὲ τί ποτέ ἐστι λογισμὸσ καὶ τί πάθοσ, καὶ πόσαι παθῶν ἰδέαι, καὶ εἰ πάντων ἐπικρατεῖ τούτων ὁ λογισμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:13)
  • κυριωτάτη δὲ πασῶν ἡ φρόνησισ, ἐξ ἧσ δὴ τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸσ ἐπικρατεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:18)
  • καὶ τῆσ πρὸσ γαμετὴν φιλίασ ἐπικρατεῖ διὰ παρανομίαν αὐτὴν ἀπελέγχων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 2:11)
  • καὶ δίκαιόν ἐστιν ὁμολογεῖν ἡμᾶσ τὸ κράτοσ εἶναι τοῦ λογισμοῦ. ὅπου γε καὶ τῶν ἔξωθεν ἀλγηδόνων ἐπικρατεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:34)

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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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