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ἐπιπώλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπώλησις ἐπιπώλησεως

Structure: ἐπιπωλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipwle/omai

Sense

  1. a going round, inspection

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιπώλησις ἐπιπωλήσει ἐπιπωλήσεις
Genitive ἐπιπωλήσεως ἐπιπωλήσοιν ἐπιπωλήσεων
Dative ἐπιπωλήσει ἐπιπωλήσοιν ἐπιπωλήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐπιπώλησιν ἐπιπωλήσει ἐπιπωλήσεις
Vocative ἐπιπώλησι ἐπιπωλήσει ἐπιπωλήσεις

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

  • πρωτίστῳ δίδομεν, εὖτ’ ἂν πτολίεθρον ἕλωμεν , καὶ πάλιν ὁ Ἀχιλλεὺσ αἴ κέ ποθι Ζεὺσ δῷσι πόλιν Τροίην εὐτείχεον ἐξαλαπάξαι ὁ δὲ Θερσίτησ ὅν κεν ἐγὼ δήσασ ἀγάγω ἢ ἄλλοσ Ἀχαιῶν πάλιν τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονοσ ἐν τῇ ἐπιπωλήσει τὸν Διομήδην λοιδορήσαντοσ ὁ μὲν οὐδὲν ἀντεῖπεν αἰδεσθεὶσ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • ἔνθ’ ἔσαν Αἰάντόσ τε νέεσ καὶ Πρωτεσιλάου καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπιπωλήσει ὁ Ἀγαμέμνων εὑρ͂’ υἱὸν Πετεῶο Μενεσθῆα πλήξιππον ἑσταότ’, ἀμφὶ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι, μήστωρεσ ἀυτῆσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 1 14:5)

Synonyms

  1. a going round

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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