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ἐπισταθμία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισταθμία

Structure: ἐπισταθμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a liability to have persons quartered on one

Declension

First 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

  • παραλαβὼν δὲ ἔθνη πλήθει μὲν καὶ ἡλικίᾳ ἀκμάζοντα, πλεονεξίᾳ δὲ καὶ ὕβρει τῶν πεμπομένων ἑκάστοτε στρατηγῶν πρὸσ ὅλην κακῶσ διακείμενα τὴν ἡγεμονίαν, ἀνελάμβανεν ὁμιλίᾳ τε τοὺσ δυνατοὺσ καὶ φόρων ἀνέσει τοὺσ πολλούσ, μάλιστα δὲ τῶν ἐπισταθμιῶν ἀπαλλάξασ ἠγαπήθη· (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 6 4:1)

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

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