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ἐπίτασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτασις ἐπίτασεως

Structure: ἐπιτασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pitei/nw

Sense

  1. a stretching

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

  • ἐπιτάσεισ μέντοι καὶ ἀνέσεισ λαμβάνει τινὰσ ἀναλόγουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 13 3:5)
  • ἐπειδὴ κρατίστην μὲν ἔφην εἶναι τὴν μικτὴν σύνθεσιν, ταύτῃ δὲ κεχρῆσθαί φημι τὸν Δημοσθένην ἁπάντων μετριώτατα τῶν ἄλλων, ἐπιτάσεισ δὲ καὶ ἀνέσεισ ἀξιολόγουσ ἐν αὐτῇ ποιεῖσθαι, τοτὲ μὲν ἀξιωματικωτέραν, τοτὲ δ’ εὐπρεπεστέραν ποιοῦντα τὴν ἀγωγήν, τί δή ποτε βουλόμενοσ οὐ πορεύεται μίαν αἰεὶ καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδόν; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 442)
  • αὕτη τε κίνησισ οὖσα καὶ δύναμισ περὶ τὸ ἄλογον, τὰσ ἐκλύσεισ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιτάσεισ καὶ ὅλωσ τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧττον ἐξαιρεῖ τῆσ ὁρμῆσ, εἰσ τὸ μέτριον καὶ ἀναμάρτητον καθιστᾶσα τῶν παθῶν ἕκαστον. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 5:2)
  • ταῦτα τοίνυν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα διακρουόμενοι τὰσ ἐπιτάσεισ τῶν παθῶν καὶ τὰσ σφοδρότητασ οὔ φασι γίγνεσθαι κατὰ τὴν κρίσιν ἐν ᾗ τὸ ἁμαρτητικόν, ἀλλὰ τὰσ δήξεισ καὶ τὰσ συστολὰσ καὶ τὰσ διαχύσεισ εἶναι τὰσ τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧττον τῷ ἀλόγῳ δεχομένασ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 10 7:2)
  • βαρύτητα τὴν ἄγαν διαπέφευγεν αὕτη τε κίνησισ οὖσα καὶ δύναμισ περὶ τὸ ἄλογον, τὰσ ἐκλύσεισ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιτάσεισ καὶ ὅλωσ τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧττον ἐξαιρεῖ τῆσ ὁρμῆσ, εἰσ τὸ μέτριον καὶ ἀναμάρτητον καθιστᾶσα τῶν παθῶν ἕκαστον. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a stretching

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

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