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ἐπιτολή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτολή

Structure: ἐπιτολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pite/llw II

Sense

  1. the rising of a star

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἢν μὲν ἐπὶ κυνὸσ ἐπιτολῇ ὕδωρ ἐπιγένηται καὶ χειμὼν καὶ οἱ ἐτησίαι πνεύσωσιν, ἐλπὶσ παύσασθαι καὶ τὸ μετόπωρον ὑγιηρὸν γενέσθαι‧ ἢν δὲ μή, κίν δυνοσ θανάτουσ τε γενέσθαι τοῖσι παιδίοισι καὶ τῇσι γυναιξίν, τοῖσι δὲ πρεσβύτῃσιν ἥκιστα, τούσ τε περιγενομένουσ ἐσ τεταρταίουσ ἀποτελευτᾶν καὶ ἐκ τῶν τεταρταίων ἐσ ὕδρωπασ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , x.6)
  • Κυνὸσ δ’ ἦν ἐπιτολή, καὶ τὸ Κηνσωρίνου στρατόπεδον ἐνόσει, σταθμεῦον ἐπὶ λίμνῃ σταθεροῦ καὶ βαρέοσ ὕδατοσ καὶ ὑπὸ τείχεσι μεγίστοισ, οὐ καταπνεόμενον ἐκ τῆσ θαλάσσησ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. the rising of a star

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

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