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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

  • τὸ δὲ συμφέρον συνίσταται ἐκ τόπων τεσσάρων, οὗτοι δέ εἰσιν οἵδε, τήρησισ ὧν ἔχομεν ἀγαθῶν, ἐπίκτησισ ὧν οὐκ ἔχομεν ἀγαθῶν, ἀποφυγὴ τῶν περιεστώτων κακῶν, κώλυσισ τῶν ἐπιφερομένων κακῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:3)
  • 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)
  • καὶ ἐν τῷδε αὖ πάλιν οἱ μὲν διήρπασαν δύο τῶν ἡμετέρων στρατοπέδων ὄντων τὸ ἕτερον, ἡμεῖσ δὲ ἐκείνων ἅπαντα ἔχομεν, ὡσ καὶ τῷδε τὴν ἐπίκτησιν τῆσ βλάβησ διπλασίονα εἶναι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 16 1:9)

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

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