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ἔποχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔποχος ἔποχον

Structure: ἐποχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pe/xw

Sense

  1. mounted upon, borne on
  2. having a good seat
  3. navigable

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὁ δὲ τρέψασ ἐνταῦθα τὸν στρατὸν σχολάζοντα τάφρον μεγάλην ἐνέβαλε, καὶ ταύτῃ πολύ μέροσ τοῦ ποταμοῦ μεταστὴσασ περιήγαγεν εἰσ ἐπιτήδειον αἰγιαλόν, βαθὺ μὲν καὶ ναυσὶ μεγάλαισ ἔποχον, λεῖον δὲ καὶ ἄκλυστον στόμα λαβοῦσαν πρὸσ τὴν θάλασσαν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 15 3:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ Μάριοσ φιλοτίμωσ πάνυ καὶ μειρακιωδῶσ ἀποτριβόμενοσ τὸ γῆρασ καὶ τὴν ἀσθένειαν ὁσημέραι κατέβαινεν εἰσ τὸ πεδίον, καὶ μετὰ τῶν νεανίσκων γυμναζόμενοσ ἐπεδείκνυε τὸ σῶμα κοῦφον μὲν ὅπλοισ, ἔποχον δὲ ταῖσ ἱππασίαισ, καίπερ οὐκ εὐσταλὴσ γεγονώσ ἐν γήρᾳ τὸν ὄγκον, ἀλλ’ εἰσ σάρκα περιπληθῆ καὶ βαρεῖαν ἐνδεδωκώσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 34 3:1)
  • μεθυ ὅ τι ποτε φερειν ἔποχον ἔχει τι στίβοσ ὁδενεσ στράτιοσ, στράτιοσ υ δεῦρ’ ἕπου· (Sophocles, Ichneutae 14:9)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ δεῖ ἐν παντοίοισ τε χωρίοισ τὸν ἱππέα ἀνὰ κράτοσ ἐλαύνοντα ἔποχον εἶναι καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἵππου τοῖσ ὅπλοισ καλῶσ δύνασθαι χρῆσθαι, ὅπου μέν ἐστι χωρία ἐπιτήδεια καὶ θηρία, ἄμεμπτοσ ἡ ἐν θήραισ μελέτη τῆσ ἱππικῆσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 13:1)
  • χρὴ δὲ καὶ τὸ ἔποχον τοιοῦτον ἐρράφθαι ὡσ ἀσφαλέστερόν τε τὸν ἱππέα καθῆσθαι καὶ τὴν ἕδραν τοῦ ἵππου μὴ σίνεσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. having a good seat

  2. navigable

Related

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

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