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ἐπίληθος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: epilēthos

Principal Part: ἐπίληθος ἐπίληθον

Structure: ἐπιληθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐπιλήθω

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 εὑρ´ασθαι 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

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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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