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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)

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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