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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

  • "παρὰ δὲ καὶ τούτῳ τῷ συμποσίῳ κοιτῶνεσ, ἀκόλουθον τὴν κατασκευὴν τοῖσ προδεδηλωμένοισ ἔχοντεσ, προάγοντι δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν πρῷραν οἶκοσ ὑπέκειτο Βακχικὸσ τρισκαιδεκάκλινοσ περίπτεροσ, ἐπίχρυσον ἔχων τὸ γεῖσον ἑώσ τοῦ περιτρέχοντασ ἐπιστυλίου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3734)

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

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