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ἐπιτάφιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτάφιος ἐπιτάφιον

Structure: ἐπιταφι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ta/fos

Sense

  1. over a tomb, a funeral oration

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ γέγραφεν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 43)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ ἡ λέξισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 162)
  • Θουκυδίδησ γοῦν ὁ δαιμονιώτατοσ τῶν συγγραφέων ἔν τε τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ δημηγορίαισ ποιητικῇ κατασκευῇ χρησάμενοσ ἐν πολλοῖσ ἐξήλλαξε τὴν ἑρμηνείαν εἰσ ὄγκον ἅμα καὶ κόσμον ὀνομάτων ἀηθέστερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 3 4:1)
  • ἐγυμνάζοντο δὲ πρὸσ ὀρνεοθηρευτικήν, καὶ τὴν πελειάδα τῇ μηρίνθῳ κρεμῶντεσ ἀπὸ νηὸσ ἱστοῦ καὶ τοξεύοντεσ ἑκηβόλωσ εἰσ αὐτήν, ὡσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ δηλοῦται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 46 2:1)
  • καὶ ἔτι τὴν Πλατωνικὴν ἐκείνην περίοδον, ἣν ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ ὁ ἀνὴρ γράφει, τίσ οὐκ ἂν φαίη παραπληρώματι λέξεωσ οὐκ ἀναγκαίῳ προσηρανίσθαι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 95)

Synonyms

  1. over a tomb

Related

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

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