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ἐπίσπεισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίσπεισις ἐπίσπεισεως

Structure: ἐπισπεισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a libation over

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

  • κατὰ μέν νυν τὰσ κεφαλὰσ τῶν θυομένων κτηνέων καὶ τὴν ἐπίσπεισιν τοῦ οἴνου πάντεσ Αἰγύπτιοι νόμοισι τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι χρέωνται ὁμοίωσ ἐσ πάντα τὰ ἱρά, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ νόμου οὐδὲ ἄλλου οὐδενὸσ ἐμψύχου κεφαλῆσ γεύσεται Αἰγυπτίων οὐδείσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 39 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a libation over

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

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