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ἐπιστάτης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστάτης ἐπιστάτες

Structure: ἐπιστατη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)fi/stamai

Sense

  1. one who stands near or by, a suppliant
  2. one's rear-rank man, the right- or left-hand man, the front-rank man)
  3. one who stands or is mounted upon
  4. one who is set over, a commander, president, steward, a, master
  5. the President
  6. an overseer, superintendent
  7. the caldron, which stood over

Examples

  • καὶ ἐμαστιγώθησαν οἱ γραμματεῖσ τοῦ γένουσ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, οἱ κατασταθέντεσ ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπιστατῶν τοῦ Φαραώ, λέγοντεσ. διατί οὐ συνετελέσατε τὰσ συντάξεισ ὑμῶν τῆσ πλινθείασ καθάπερ χθὲσ καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν, καὶ τὸ τῆσ σήμερον̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 5:14)
  • ̓πιν ἑστὼσ ἐπιστάτησ καλεῖται, ὁ δὲ αὖ κατόπιν τούτου πρωτοστάτησ, ὁ δ̓ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐπιστάτησ, καὶ ἐφεξῆσ ὡσαύτωσ, ὡσ τὸν πάντα τοῦ λόχου στίχον ἐκ πρωτοστατῶν καὶ ἐπιστατῶν τετάχθαι παραλλὰξ ἱσταμένων. (Arrian, chapter 6 6:3)
  • ἐπιφάνειαν δὲ τὴν ἐκ δεξιῶν, διαμενόντων ἑκάστῳ τῶν τε ἐπιστατῶν καὶ παραστατῶν. (Arrian, chapter 21 8:1)
  • τοσούτουσ ἐκέκτητο καὶ τοιούτουσ, ἀναγνώστασ, ὑπογραφεῖσ, ἀργυρογνώμονασ, διοικητάσ, τραπεζοκόμουσ, αὐτὸσ ἐπιστατῶν μανθάνουσι καὶ προσέχων καὶ διδάσκων καὶ ὅλωσ νομίζων τῷ δεσπότῃ προσήκειν μάλιστα τὴν περὶ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ ἐπιμέλειαν ὡσ ὄργανα ἔμψυχα τῆσ οἰκονομικῆσ. (Plutarch, chapter 2 6:1)
  • "ὃ καὶ πάντεσ ἐθαύμαζον, ὅτι τῶν μὲν ἐν Κιλικίᾳ τελευτησάντων ὑπὲρ τῆσ σῆσ βασιλείασ καὶ τῆσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίασ οὐδέπω νῦν οὔτε ἐκεῖνοσ οὔτ’ ἄλλοσ οὐδεὶσ τῶν ἐπιστατῶν κεκόσμηκε τὸν τάφον, Πυθιονίκησ δὲ τῆσ ἑταίρασ φανήσεται τὸ μὲν Ἀθήνησιν, τὸ δ’ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι μνῆμα πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον ἐπιτετελεσμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 67 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who stands or is mounted upon

Related

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

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