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ἐπίταγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίταγμα ἐπίταγματος

Structure: ἐπιταγματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)pita/ssw

Sense

  1. an injunction, command
  2. a reserve force

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῦτο φήσ, ὦ Προμηθεῦ, ἀντὶ σοῦ ἀνασκολοπισθῆναι ^ αὐτίκα μάλα παρακούσαντασ τοῦ ἐπιτάγματοσ· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 2:2)
  • ἐν ἐκείναισ μὲν γάρ, οἶμαι, ταῖσ πολιτείαισ πάντ’ ἐξ ἐπιτάγματοσ ὀξέωσ γίγνεται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 244:1)
  • πολὺσ γὰρ δὴ Ῥωμαίοισ ἀεὶ λόγοσ τοῦ μηθὲν δρᾶσαί ποτ’ ἐξ ἐπιτάγματοσ μηδὲ φόβῳ πολεμίων εἴξαντασ, σπεισαμένοισ δὲ τοῖσ διαφόροισ καὶ παρασχοῦσιν ἑαυτοὺσ ὑπηκόουσ χαρίζεσθαί τε καὶ ἐπιτρέπειν ὅτου δέοιντο τῶν μετρίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 36 7:1)
  • πάλιν δ’ ἀντειπόντοσ ἔπεμπον ἑτέρουσ δέκα δεησομένουσ μηδὲν ἀνάξιον ποιεῖν τῆσ πατρίδοσ, μηδ’ ἐξ ἐπιτάγματοσ ἀλλ’ ἑκουσίουσ ἐᾶν γίγνεσθαι τὰσ συνθήκασ, αἰδούμενόν τε τὴν πατρίδα, καὶ τὸ τῶν προγόνων ἀξίωμα τιμῶντα τῶν ἐσ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἁμαρτόντων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2:2)
  • καὶ ὁ εὐπειθέστατοσ ὤν σοι πρὸσ κινδύνουσ καὶ πόνουσ οὐκ ἠνέσχετο νῦν οὐδὲ ἀναπαύσεωσ ἐπιτάγματοσ, ἀλλ’ ἀνέθορεν, οὐδὲ ἀνὰ μέροσ ἀλλ’ ἀθρόωσ, ἐπιστάταισ αὐτοῖσ, καὶ ἐνόμιζε κεκελεῦσθαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 7:13)

Synonyms

  1. an injunction

  2. a reserve force

Related

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

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