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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

  • ἁβροδιαίτων δ’ ἕπεται Λυδῶν ὄχλοσ, οἵ τ’ ἐπίπαν ἠπειρογενὲσ κατέχουσιν ἔθνοσ, τοὺσ Μητρογαθὴσ Ἀρκτεύσ τ’ ἀγαθόσ, βασιλῆσ δίοποι, καὶ πολύχρυσοι Σάρδεισ ἐπόχουσ πολλοῖσ ἁρ́μασιν ἐξορμῶσιν, δίρρυμά τε καὶ τρίρρυμα τέλη, φοβερὰν ὄψιν προσιδέσθαι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests 1:1)
  • Βαβυλὼν δ’ ἡ πολύχρυσοσ πάμμικτον ὄχλον πέμπει σύρδην, ναῶν τ’ ἐπόχουσ καὶ τοξουλκῷ λήματι πιστούσ· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests 1:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐπόχουσ ἐν παντοδαποῖσ χωρίοισ αὕτη μάλιστα ἀποδείκνυσι διὰ τὸ θηρίοισ φεύγουσιν ἐφέπεσθαι, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων ἐνεργοὺσ αὕτη μάλιστα ἀπεργάζεται διὰ τὴν τοῦ λαμβάνειν φιλοτιμίαν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 41:1)

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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