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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

  • ὅταν δ’ ᾖ χρημάτων καταβολή, παραδίδωσι τοῖσ ἀποδέκταισ αὐτὰ ταῦτα καθελὼν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιστυλίων, ὧν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ δεῖ τὰ χρήματα καταβληθῆναι καὶ ἀπαλειφθῆναι· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 47 5:2)
  • ὅπλα δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιστυλίων χρυσᾶ, Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν τὰσ ἀσπίδασ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔργου τοῦ Μαραθῶνι ἀνέθεσαν, Αἰτωλοὶ δὲ τά τε ὄπισθεν καὶ τὰ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ Γαλατῶν δὴ ὅπλα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 8:4)

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

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