Hellas Alive Dictionary - επιστροφος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίστροφος ἐπίστροφον

Structure: ἐπιστροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pistre/fw

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἐπίστροφος ἐπιστρόφου	ἐπιστροφώτερος ἐπιστροφωτέρου	ἐπιστροφώτατος ἐπιστροφωτάτου
Adverb	ἐπιστρόφως	ἐπιστροφώτερον	ἐπιστροφώτατα

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.

οἱ δαημονέστατοι τῶν ἐξελιγμῶν τε καὶ ἐπιστροφῶν, ἐσ ἄλλουσ καὶ ἄλλουσ κύκλουσ ἢ ἄλλασ καὶ ἐπιστροφῶν, ἐσ ἄλλουσ καὶ ἄλλουσ κύκλουσ ἢ ἄλλασ καὶ ἄλλασ ἐπ̓ εὐθὺ ἐκδρομὰσ ἐπιλέγονται, τὸ δὲ πλῆθοσ οὐδὲν ἄλλο μεμελέτηκεν, ὅτι μὴ ἕπεσθαι τῷ οἰκείῳ ἕκαστοι σημείῳ. (Arrian, chapter 35 9:1)
Ὡσ δὲ οὐ πόρρω τῶν ξυμβολῶν ἦσαν, ἐνταῦθα δὴ οἱ κυβερνῆται παραγγέλλουσιν ὡσ βιαιοτάτῃ εἰρεσίᾳ χρωμένουσ ἐξελαύνειν ἐκ τῶν στενῶν, τοῦ μὴ ἐμπιπτούσασ τὰσ ναῦσ ἐσ τὰσ δίνασ ἀναστρέφεσθαι πρὸσ αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ κρατεῖν γὰρ τῇ εἰρεσίᾳ τῶν ἐπιστροφῶν τοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 5 1:1)

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

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