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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

  • Λυκούργου δὲ καὶ Κλεοφύλησ ἢ Εὐρυνόμησ Ἀγκαῖοσ καὶ Ἔποχοσ καὶ Ἀμφιδάμασ καὶ Ιἄσοσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 9 2:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅσα διαγωνίζονται πολλάκισ ἥλικεσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, οὐχ ἃ κρείττων ᾔδει ὤν, ταῦτα προυκαλεῖτο τοὺσ συνόντασ, ἀλλ’ ἅπερ εὖ ᾔδει ἑαυτὸν ἥττονα ὄντα, ἐξῆρχε, φάσκων κάλλιον αὐτῶν ποιήσειν, καὶ κατῆρχεν ἤδη ἀναπηδῶν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ ἢ διατοξευσόμενοσ ἢ διακοντιούμενοσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων οὔπω πάνυ ἔποχοσ ὤν, ἡττώμενοσ δὲ αὐτὸσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ μάλιστα ἐγέλα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 7:3)
  • ἑξῆσ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ βάθρῳ καὶ Ἔποχοσ καλούμενοσ καὶ νεανίασ ἐστὶν ἕτεροσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 12:4)
  • κατὰ δὲ τοῦ ὑὸσ τὰ ἕτερα Ἀγκαῖον ἔχοντα ἤδη τραύματα καὶ ἀφέντα τὸν πέλεκυν ἀνέχων ἐστὶν Ἔποχοσ, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν Κάστωρ καὶ Ἀμφιάραοσ Οἰκλέουσ, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖσ Ἱππόθουσ ὁ Κερκυόνοσ <τοῦ> Ἀγαμήδουσ τοῦ Στυμφήλου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 45 10:1)
  • οὔθ’ ἁρ́μα ἀναβαίνειν οἶμαι θαρρήσειεν ἄν τισ τὸν κρημνὸν ὁρῶν, εἰδὼσ ὡσ οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τέ ἐστι μένειν ἔποχοσ, οὔτε πραγμάτων τοσούτων ἐπιβαίνειν, ὧν ἐκπεσὼν εὐθὺσ κείσεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:3)

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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