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ἐπύλλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπύλλιον ἐπύλλιου

Structure: ἐπυλλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a versicle, scrap of poetry

Declension

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 νοῦσ μὲν ἔξω ξυλλέγων ἐπύλλια οὐκ ἔνδον, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἔνδον ἀναβάδην ποιεῖ τραγῳδίαν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:7)
  • τοῦ μὲν γὰρ ὄζει κρομμυοξυρεγμίασ, ταύτησ δ’ ὀπώρασ, ὑποδοχῆσ, Διονυσίων, αὐλῶν, τραγῳδῶν, Σοφοκλέουσ μελῶν, κιχλῶν, ἐπυλλίων Εὐριπίδου ‐ κλαύσἄρα σὺ ταύτησ καταψευδόμενοσ· (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 3 1:8)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ παρέλαβον τὴν τέχνην παρὰ σοῦ τὸ πρῶτον εὐθὺσ οἰδοῦσαν ὑπὸ κομπασμάτων καὶ ῥημάτων ἐπαχθῶν, ἴσχνανα μὲν πρώτιστον αὐτὴν καὶ τὸ βάροσ ἀφεῖλον ἐπυλλίοισ καὶ περιπάτοισ καὶ τευτλίοισι λευκοῖσ, χυλὸν διδοὺσ στωμυλμάτων ἀπὸ βιβλίων ἀπηθῶν· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme 1:2)

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

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