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εὐέπεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐέπεια

Structure: εὐεπει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)eph/s

Sense

  1. beauty of language, eloquence
  2. kind words

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

  • ταῦτά τε δὴ τῆσ εὐεπείασ αἴτια τῇ λέξει γέγονε καὶ ἡ τῶν κώλων συμμετρία πρὸσ ἄλληλα, τῶν τε περιόδων ὁ κύκλοσ ἔχων τι περιφερὲσ καὶ εὔγραμμον καὶ τεταμιευμένον ἄκρωσ ταῖσ συμμετρίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2353)
  • ἄξιοσ γὰρ εἶ τῆσ εὐεπείασ εἵνεκ’· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode12)
  • τὰ δὲ Πώλου πῶσ φράσωμεν αὖ μουσεῖα λόγων ‐ ὡσ διπλασιολογίαν καὶ γνωμολογίαν καὶ εἰκονολογίαν ‐ ὀνομάτων τε Λικυμνίων ἃ ἐκείνῳ ἐδωρήσατο πρὸσ ποίησιν εὐεπείασ; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 268:7)

Synonyms

  1. kind words

Related

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

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