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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

  • "ἐφ’ ὧν ἐπιστύλιον καθηρμόσθη τετράγωνον, ὑπερεῖδον τὴν σύμπασαν τοῦ συμποσίου στέγην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:74)
  • "τῶν δὲ κιόνων τὰ μὲν σώματα ἦν κυπαρίσσινα, αἱ δὲ κεφαλαὶ Κορινθιουργεῖσ, ἐλέφαντι καὶ χρυσῷ διακεκοσμημέναι, τὸ δὲ ἐπιστύλιον ἐκ χρυσοῦ τὸ ὅλον ἐφ’ οὗ διάζωσμα ἐφήρμοστο περιφανῆ ζῴδια ἔχον ἐλεφάντινα μείζω πηχυαίων, τῇ μὲν τέχνῃ μέτρια, τῇ χορηγίᾳ δὲ ἀξιοθαύμαστα, ἐπέκειτο δὲ καὶ στέγη καλὴ τῷ συμποσίῳ τετράγωνοσ κυπαρισσίνη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3728)

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

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