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ἐπιστύλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιστύλιον ἐπιστύλιου

Structure: ἐπιστυλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: stu=los

Sense

  1. the lintel on the top of pillars, the epistyle, architrave

Declension

Second 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

  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ ἑκατόμπεδον Παρθενῶνα Καλλικράτησ εἰργάζετο καὶ Ἰκτῖνοσ, τὸ δ’ ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τελεστήριον ἤρξατο μὲν Κόροιβοσ οἰκοδομεῖν, καὶ τοὺσ ἐπ’ ἐδάφουσ κίονασ ἔθηκεν οὗτοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἐπιστυλίοισ ἐπέζευξεν· (Plutarch, , chapter 13 4:2)
  • αἱ δ’ ὀροφαὶ ξύλοισ ἐξήσκηντο γλυφαῖσ πολυτρόποισ σχημάτων ἰδέαισ, καὶ τὸ τῆσ μέσησ βάθοσ ἐπὶ μεῖζον ἠγείρετο περιδεδομημένου τοῖσ ἐπιστυλίοισ προμετωπιδίου τοίχου κίονασ ἔχοντοσ ἐνδεδομημένουσ καὶ ξεστοῦ παντὸσ ὄντοσ, ὡσ ἄπιστα τοῖσ οὐκ εἰδόσιν καὶ σὺν ἐκπλήξει θεατὰ τοῖσ ἐντυγχάνουσιν εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 492:1)

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

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