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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

  • τῶν δ’ ἐπιθέσεων αἱ μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ σῶμα γίγνονται τῶν ἀρχόντων, αἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχήν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 229:2)
  • διὸ καὶ γινομένων κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἐπιθέσεων καὶ κατὰ μέροσ συμπλοκῶν, ταῖσ μὲν μάχαισ οἱ ξένοι ἐπροτέρουν, εἰργόμενοι δὲ τῆσ χώρασ ἐλείποντο ταῖσ παρασκευαῖσ καὶ τροφῆσ ἐσπάνιζον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 73 3:2)
  • τὰ δὲ μεταξὺ τῶν στρατοπέδων ἐξ ἑκατέρου τοῦ μέρουσ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὠχυρώσαντο καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐντὸσ αὐτῶν τάφρον προεβάλοντο χάριν τῆσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐξιόντασ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀσφαλείασ, τὴν δ’ ἐκτὸσ αὐτῶν περιεβάλοντο, φυλακὴν ποιούμενοι τῶν ἔξωθεν ἐπιθέσεων καὶ τῶν παρεισάγεσθαι καὶ παρεισπίπτειν εἰωθότων εἰσ τὰσ πολιορκουμένασ πόλεισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 18 3:1)

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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