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ἐπίπεμψις?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: epipempsis

Principal Part: ἐπίπεμψις ἐπίπεμψεως

Structure: ἐπιπεμψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐπίπεμπω

Sense

  1. a sending to

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίπεμψις ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψεις
Genitive ἐπιπέμψεως ἐπιπέμψοιν ἐπιπέμψεων
Dative ἐπιπέμψει ἐπιπέμψοιν ἐπιπέμψεσι(ν)
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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