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ἐπισιτισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισιτισμός

Etym.: from e)pisi_ti/zomai

Sense

  1. a furnishing oneself with provisions, foraging
  2. a stock or store of provisions

Examples

  • χωρὶσ δὲ τούτων ὁ ἐπισιτισμὸσ ἦν τῶν ἐμπλεόντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 442)
  • ὡσ δὲ Δοῦρισ, τριάκοντα μόνον ἡμερῶν ἐπισιτισμόσ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 3 7:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ Δοῦρισ, τριάκοντα μόνον ἡμερῶν ἐπισιτισμόσ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 3 3:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ συλλέξασ δύναμιν παρῆν ὁ Ἀρτάβαζοσ, ἀφειμένοσ παρὰ τοῦ Αὐτοφραδάτου, τῷ μὲν ὑπῆρχ’ ἐπισιτισμὸσ ἐκ τῆσ ἄνωθεν Φρυγίασ καὶ Λυδίασ καὶ Παφλαγονίασ οἰκείασ οὔσησ, τῷ δ’ οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἄλλο πλὴν πολιορκία περιειστήκει. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 215:3)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο αὕτη ἡ στρατεία ὥσπερ ἐπισιτισμὸσ τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 32:5)

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

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