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ἐπίπεμψις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπεμψις ἐπίπεμψεως

Structure: ἐπιπεμψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pi/pempw

Sense

  1. a sending to

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίπεμψις ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψεις
Genitive ἐπιπέμψεως ἐπιπέμψοιν ἐπιπέμψεων
Dative ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψοιν ἐπιπέμψεσιν*
Accusative ἐπίπεμψιν ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψεις
Vocative ἐπίπεμψι ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψεις

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

  • τὴν δὲ πόλιν αὐτὴν ὁρῶν ὀλιγωρίᾳ τῶν προεστώτων διεφθαρμένην, τῶν πολλῶν κλεπτόντων, μᾶλλον δὲ ἁρπαζόντων τὰ κοινά, ὑδάτων τε ἐπιρροίαισ ἀνεκτησάμην καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων ἀναστάσεσιν ἐκόσμησα καὶ τειχῶν περιβολῇ ἐκράτυνα καὶ τὰσ προσόδουσ, ὅσαι ἦσαν κοιναί, τῇ τῶν ἐφεστώτων ἐπιμελείᾳ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐπηύξησα καὶ τῆσ νεολαίασ ἐπεμελούμην καὶ τῶν γερόντων προὐνόουν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐν θέαισ καὶ διανομαῖσ καὶ πανηγύρεσι καὶ δημοθοινίαισ διῆγον, ὕβρεισ δὲ παρθένων ἢ ἐφήβων διαφθοραὶ ἢ γυναικῶν ἀπαγωγαὶ ἢ δορυφόρων ἐπιπέμψεισ ἢ δεσποτική τισ ἀπειλὴ ἀποτρόπαιά μοι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἦν. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. a sending to

Similar forms

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

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