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ἐπίμετρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίμετρον ἐπίμετρου

Structure: ἐπιμετρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. over-measure, excess

Declension

Second 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

  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ὁ πυρὸσ εἰσ ἀγγεῖον κατακλεισθεὶσ τῷ μὲν μέτρῳ πλείων εὑρίσκεται τῇ δὲ χρείᾳ μοχθηρότεροσ, οὕτω λόγοσ εἰσ ἀδόλεσχον ἐμπεσὼν ἄνθρωπον πολὺ ποιεῖ τοῦ ψεύδουσ ἐπίμετρον, ᾧ διαφθείρει τὴν πίστιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 3 1:3)
  • πολὺ ποιεῖ τοῦ ψεύδουσ ἐπίμετρον, ᾧ διαφθείρει τὴν πίστιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 3 5:1)
  • ἢν γὰρ καί τι δάκῃσ, τὸ μὲν ἀβλαβὲσ εὐθὺσ ἔθηκασ, διπλάσιον δ’ ὤνασασ, ἔχων δ’ ἐπίμετρον ἀπῆνθον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 13)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ καταμιγνυμένη πρὸσ σῖτον ἐπίμετρον ποιεῖ δαψιλέσ, ἁδρύνουσα καὶ διογκοῦσα τῇ θερμότητι τὸν πυρόν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 11:2)

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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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