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ἐπόπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπόπτης ἐπόπτου

Structure: ἐποπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)po/yomai, fut. of e)fora/w

Sense

  1. an overseer, watcher, a spectator
  2. one admitted to the highest mysteries

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

  • τὸ κρατήσιππον γὰρ ἐσ ἁρ̀μ’ ἀναβαίνων ματέρι καὶ διδύμοισ παίδεσσιν αὐδὰν μανύει Πυθῶνοσ αἰπεινᾶσ ὁμοκλάροισ ἐπόπταισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 2:1)
  • τρισὶ μὲν δὴ ἐπετέτραπτο ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁ δρόμοσ τῶν ἵππων, τοσούτοισ δὲ ἑτέροισ ἐπόπταισ εἶναι τοῦ πεντάθλου, τοῖσ δὲ ὑπολειπομένοισ τὰ λοιπὰ ἔμελε τῶν ἀγωνισμάτων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 9 10:2)

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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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