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ἐπίθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίθεσις ἐπίθεσεως

Structure: ἐπιθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)piti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a laying on
  2. a setting upon, attack

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅτι λιμοῦ κατὰ τὴν Ῥώμην γενομένου ἰσχυροῦ ἀνήρ τισ οἴκου τε οὐκ ἀφανοῦσ καὶ χρήμασιν ἐν τοῖσ μάλιστα δυνατόσ, Σπόριοσ Μαίλιοσ Εὐδαίμων ἐπίκλησιν ἐπὶ τῆσ πολλῆσ εὐπορίασ νεωστὶ μὲν παρειληφὼσ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρόσ, ἡλικίαν δὲ καὶ τάξιν ἔχων ἱππικήν, οἱᾶ μήτε ἀρχὰσ παραλαμβάνειν μήτε ἄλλην κοινὴν ἐπιμέλειαν μηδεμίαν, λαμπρὸσ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ τὰ πολέμια καὶ πολλοῖσ κεκοσμημένοσ ἀριστείοισ, κράτιστον ὑπολαβὼν καιρὸν ἐπιθέσει τυραννίδοσ, ἐπὶ δημαγωγίαν τοῦ πλήθουσ ἐτράπετο, τὴν ῥᾳστώνην τῶν ἐπὶ τυραννίδα φερουσῶν ὁδῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 11)

Synonyms

  1. a laying on

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

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