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ἐπισταδόν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισταδόν

Etym.: e)pisth=nai

Sense

  1. standing over each in turn, one after another, successively

Examples

  • ταὶ δὲ γυναῖκεσ ἀμφίπολοι γοάασκον ἐπισταδόν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 6:18)
  • βρυχὴ δ’ ὑπετέλλετ’ ὀδόντων ἄσπετοσ, οὐδ’ ἔλληξαν ἐπισταδὸν οὐτάζοντεσ, ἔστε περ οὐλοὸν ἆσθμα καὶ ἀμφοτέρουσ ἐδάμασσεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:16)
  • ὧσ ὅγε ποσσὶν ἀκαμάτοισ τείωσ μὲν ἐπισταδὸν ᾐωρεῖτο, ὕστερον αὖτ’ ἀμενηνὸσ ἀπείρονι κάππεσε δούπῳ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:20)
  • "αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥ’ ἐπὶ νῆα κατήλυθον ἠδὲ θάλασσαν, νείκεον ἄλλοθεν ἄλλον ἐπισταδόν, οὐδέ τι μῆχοσ εὑρέμεναι δυνάμεσθα, βόεσ δ’ ἀποτέθνασαν ἤδη. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 47:1)
  • ὣσ φάτο, Ποντόνοοσ δὲ μελίφρονα οἶνον ἐκίρνα, νώμησεν δ’ ἄρα πᾶσιν ἐπισταδόν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 8:1)

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

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