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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 γὰρ ἄξιον ἦν καὶ ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου ἀναγράψαι καὶ ταῦτα τοῖσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνουσ εἰσ μνείαν λεγόμενα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 17:8)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἡ λέξισ ἐν τῷ προοιμίῳ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 9 1:7)
  • ἔστι γὰρ δὴ τῶν πάνυ φανερῶν καὶ περιβοήτων, ᾗ κέχρηται ὁ ἀνὴρ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ἐπιταφίου ἀρχήν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1819)
  • κράτιστοσ δὴ πάντων τῶν πολιτικῶν λόγων ὁ Μενέξενοσ, ἐν ᾧ τὸν ἐπιτάφιον διεξέρχεται λόγον, ὡσ μὲν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, Θουκυδίδην παραμιμούμενοσ, ὡσ δὲ αὐτόσ φησιν, Ἀρχίνῳ καὶ Δίωνι τοῦτον δὴ παραλήψομαι τὸν λόγον καὶ παρ’ αὐτὸν ἐξετάσω Δημοσθένουσ λέξεισ τινάσ, οὐκ ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 23 4:6)
  • πολύσ ἐστι τῶν τοιούτων σχημάτων ὄχλοσ δι’ ὅλου τοῦ ἐπιταφίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 26 4:1)

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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