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ἐπίληθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίληθος ἐπίληθον

Structure: ἐπιληθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pilh/qw

Sense

  1. causing to forget

Examples

  • κγ# ἔγχει καὶ Κήδωνι, διάκονε, μηδ’ ἐπιλήθου, εἰ χρὴ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀνδράσιν οἰνοχοεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 8:2)
  • ἔγχει καὶ Κήδωνι, διάκονε, μηδ’ ἐπιλήθου,εἰ χρὴ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἀνδράσιν οἰνοχοεῖν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 20 5:2)
  • "νηπενθέσ ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθον ἁπάντων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6362)
  • αὐτίκ’ ἄρ’ εἰσ οἶνον βάλε φάρμακον, ἔνθεν ἔπινον, νηπενθέσ τ’ ἄχολόν τε, κακῶν ἐπίληθον ἁπάντων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 26:2)
  • ἐκ ταύτησ δὲ καὶ παῖδεσ αὐτῷ γίνονται πρὸ τῆσ ἀκαρπίασ Μανασσῆσ μὲν πρεσβύτεροσ, σημαίνει δ’ ἐπίληθον, διὰ τὸ εὐδαιμονήσαντα λήθην εὑρ́ασθαι τῶν ἀτυχημάτων, ὁ δὲ νεώτεροσ Ἐφράδησ, ἀποδιδοὺσ δὲ τοῦτο σημαίνει, διὰ τὸ ἀποδοθῆναι αὐτὸν τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ τῶν προγόνων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 121:1)

Synonyms

  1. causing to forget

Related

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

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