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ἐπίκτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκτησις ἐπίκτησεως

Structure: ἐπικτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. further acquisition, fresh gain

Declension

Third 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

  • ἆρ’ οὖν διὰ ταύτασ τὰσ ἐπικτήσεισ ἐπανορθωσάμενοι φαίνονταί τι τῆσ παλαιᾶσ τύχησ καὶ προεληλυθότεσ εἰσ ἐπιφάνειαν τοῖσ βίοισ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 53 2:1)
  • τῶν δὲ προγεγραμμένων τὰ μὲν ἐν ταῖσ οἰκίαισ διεφορεῖτο, καὶ οὐ πολὺσ ἦν ὁ τὰ χωρία ὠνούμενοσ, οἱ μὲν ἐπιβαρεῖν τοῖσ ἠτυχηκόσιν αἰδούμενοι καὶ οὐκ ἐν αἰσίῳ σφίσι τὰ ἐκείνων ἔσεσθαι νομίζοντεσ οὐδὲ ἀσφαλὲσ ὅλωσ χρυσίον ἢ ἀργύριον ἔχοντασ ὁρᾶσθαι οὐδὲ τὰσ ἐπικτήσεισ νῦν ἀκινδύνουσ, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον τὰ ὄντα ἐπικίνδυνα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 5 2:5)

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

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