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ἐπιτείχισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτείχισμα ἐπιτείχισματος

Structure: ἐπιτειχισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)piteixi/zw

Sense

  1. a fort placed on the enemy's, frontier, fortresses which command
  2. a barrier or obstacle

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ ἐν τῇ πόλει ξυμφυγόντεσ βεβαιότερον ἤδη εἴργοντο τῆσ χώρασ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιτειχίσματοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 27 8:4)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἀντίοχοσ συνῴκιζε, τούσ τε φεύγοντασ τῶν Λυσιμαχέων κατακαλῶν, καὶ εἴ τινεσ αὐτῶν αἰχμάλωτοι γεγονότεσ ἐδούλευον ὠνούμενοσ, καὶ ἑτέρουσ προσκαταλέγων, καὶ βοῦσ καὶ πρόβατα καὶ σίδηρον ἐσ γεωργίαν ἐπιδιδούσ, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐλλείπων ἐσ ταχεῖαν ἐπιτειχίσματοσ ὁρμήν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a fort placed on the enemy's

Related

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

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