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ἔποικος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔποικος ἔποικη ἔποικον

Structure: ἐποικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who has settled among strangers, a settler, alien
  2. a colonist
  3. neighbouring, a neighbour, one near

Examples

  • καὶ Βυζαντίοισ οἱ ἔποικοι ἐπιβουλεύοντεσ φωραθέντεσ ἐξέπεσον διὰ μάχησ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 52:2)
  • φιλοτιμούμεθα γὰρ οἱ νεώτεροι πρὸσ τοὺσ πρεσβυτέρουσ καὶ οἱ ἔποικοι πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπικαλεσαμένουσ, πότεροι πλείονα ποιήσομεν τὸ κοινὸν ἀγαθά. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 11 11:2)
  • αὐτῶν διέλαχον οἱ καταλειφθέντεσ Ῥωμαίων ἔποικοί τε καὶ φρουροὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 58 6:1)
  • ἔνδοξοι δ’ εἰσὶν ἐκ Μακεδόνων δι’ Ἀγριᾶνασ, οἳ τὰ μέγιστα Φιλίππῳ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ κατεργασάμενοι Παίονέσ εἰσι τῶν κάτω Παιόνων, Ἰλλυριοῖσ ἔποικοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 3:3)
  • Κόρινθον δὲ οἰκοῦσι Κορινθίων μὲν οὐδεὶσ ἔτι τῶν ἀρχαίων, ἔποικοι δὲ ἀποσταλέντεσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who has settled among strangers

  2. a colonist

  3. neighbouring

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

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