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ἐπῳδή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπῳδή

Structure: ἐπῳδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a song sung to or over: an enchantment, charm, spell, a charm for or against

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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ μάγου τινὸσ εἶναι λέγοντοσ καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ ἔχειν ἰσχυράσ, ὡσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἅπαντασ ἀναπεισθῆναι παρέχειν αὐτῷ ὁπόσα βούλεται, Μὴ θαύμαζε, ἔφη· (Lucian, (no name) 23:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ λαμβάνει τισ αὐτὸν ἐραστὴσ γόησ τῶν μαγείασ καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ θεσπεσίουσ ὑπισχνουμένων καὶ χάριτασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἐρωτικοῖσ καὶ ἐπαγωγὰσ τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ καὶ θησαυρῶν ἀναπομπὰσ καὶ κλήρων διαδοχάσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 5:2)
  • αἰσχυνθήσεται γὰρ ὀρχεῖσθαι γυνὴ γεωμετρεῖν μανθάνουσα, καὶ φαρμάκων ἐπῳδὰσ οὐ προσδέξεται τοῖσ Πλάτωνοσ ἐπᾳδομένη λόγοισ καὶ τοῖσ Ξενοφῶντοσ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 48 5:2)
  • οὐ πρὸσ ἰατροῦ σοφοῦ θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰσ πρὸσ τομῶντι πήματι. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:18)
  • τούτων ἐπῳδὰσ οὐκ ἐποίησεν πατὴρ οὑμόσ, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα πάντ’ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω στρέφων τίθησιν οὐδὲν ἀσθμαίνων μένει. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. a song sung to or over

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

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