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ἐπίτεξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίτεξ εκος

Structure: εκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ti/ktw

Sense

  1. at the birth, about to bring forth

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

  • ἐν δ’ ἦν ἠυκόμου Δανάησ τέκοσ, ἱππότα Περσεύσ, οὔτ’ ἄρ’ ἐπιψαύων σάκεοσ ποσὶν οὔθ’ ἑκὰσ αὐτοῦ, θαῦμα μέγα φράσσασθ’, ἐπεὶ οὐδαμῇ ἐστήρικτο. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 24:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ λίμνη αὐτόθι, οὐ πολλὸν ἑκὰσ τοῦ ἱροῦ, ἐν τῇ ἰχθύεσ ἱροὶ τρέφονται πολλοὶ καὶ πολυειδέεσ. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 45:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Κοκκωνᾶσ τὴν Καλχηδόνα ἐδοκίμαζεν ἐπιτήδειον εἶναι καὶ εὔκαιρον χωρίον, ^ τῇ τε Θρᾴκῃ καὶ τῇ Βιθυνίᾷ πρόσοικον, οὐχ ἑκὰσ οὐδὲ τῆσ Ἀσίασ καὶ Γαλατίασ καὶ τῶν ὑπερκειμένων ἐθνῶν ἁπάντων ὁ δὲ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἔμπαλιν τὰ οἴκοι προὔκρινεν, λέγων ὅπερ ἀληθὲσ ἦν, πρὸσ τὴν τῶν τοιούτων ἀρχὴν καὶ ἐπιχείρησιν ἀνθρώπων δεῖν παχέων καὶ ἠλιθίων τῶν ὑποδεξομένων, οἱούσ τοὺσ Παφλαγόνασ εἶναι ἔφασκεν ὑπεροικοῦντασ τὸ τοῦ Ἀβώνου τεῖχοσ, δεισιδαίμονασ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ καὶ πλουσίουσ, καὶ μόνον εἰ φανείη τισ αὐλητὴν ἢ τυμπανιστὴν ἢ κυμβάλοισ κροτοῦντα ἐπαγόμενοσ, κοσκίνῳ τὸ τοῦ λόγου μαντευόμενοσ, αὐτίκα μάλα πάντασ κεχηνότασ πρὸσ αὐτὸν καὶ ὥσπερ τινὰ τῶν ἐπουρανίων προσβλέποντασ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 9:2)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἑκὰσ τετρώμεθ’, οἳ δὲ μειζόνωσ παθόντεσ οὐχ ὁρῶσιν ἡλίου φάοσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:11)
  • ἐκ τοῦ δὲ ναίεισ ἐνθάδ’ ἄστεωσ ἑκάσ; (Euripides, episode37)

Similar forms

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

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