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ἐπιτροπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτροπή

Structure: ἐπιτροπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)pitre/pw

Sense

  1. a reference
  2. against a guardian

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

  • Μαρτυρίαι ὅτι μὲν ἐτέθησαν αἱ συνθῆκαι παρὰ Ἀριστοκλεῖ καὶ ἡ ἐπιτροπὴ ἐγένετο Φωκρίτῳ καὶ Ἀριστοκλεῖ καὶ ἐμοί, οἱ εἰδότεσ ταῦτα μεμαρτυρήκασιν ὑμῖν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 20:5)
  • ἐπιχειροῦντεσ δὲ γράφειν ἑτέρασ συνθήκασ περὶ τούτων διηνέχθησαν, οὗτοσ μὲν ἀξιῶν τὸν Ἀριστοκλέα, ὁ δὲ Παρμένων τοὺσ τρεῖσ, οἷσπερ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἡ ἐπιτροπὴ ἐγένετο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 26:1)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐπιτροπὴ τούτῳ πρὸσ τὸν Παρμένοντα τρίτον ἔτοσ γέγονεν καὶ ἡ γνῶσισ τοῦ Ἀριστοκλέουσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 32:2)
  • πολὺ γὰρ ὁ λόγοσ ἦν μοι ἰσχυρότεροσ ὁμολογοῦντι τὴν ἐγγύην ἐπὶ τὰσ συνθήκασ ἰέναι, καθ’ ἃσ ἡ ἐπιτροπὴ ἐγένετο. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 41:2)
  • ἠξίουν τε ταῦτα παραινοῦντεσ μὴ χείρουσ ὀργὴν εἶναι τῶν κακιόνων τοὺσ κρείττονασ, μηδ’ εἰσ ἐκεῖνον ἀναβάλλεσθαι τὸν χρόνον τὰσ διαλλαγάσ, ὅτε ἢ νοῦν ἔχειν ἀναγκασθήσεται τὸ ἀνόητον, ἢ τῷ μείζονι κακῷ τοὔλαττον ἰᾶσθαι ὅπλων παραδόσει καὶ σωμάτων ἐπιτροπῇ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἀφαιρεθὲν αὐτὸ ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 47 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a reference

  2. against a guardian

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

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