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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

  • ταύτησ τῆσ λέξεωσ ἡ εὐέπεια καὶ ἡ χάρισ ἐν τῇ συνεχείᾳ καὶ λειότητι γέγονε τῶν ἁρμονιῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2330)
  • καλὸν ἢ τῆσ περὶ μέλη καὶ ᾠδὰσ εὐφωνίασ μετεῖναι, καὶ πολὺ τὸν Ἡσίοδον εὐεπείᾳ καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον ὑπερφθέγγεσθαι· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 5 2:1)
  • Καλλιόπην δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ καλὴν ὄπα προϊέσθαι, τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ τῇ εὐεπείᾳ διάφορον οὖσαν ἀποδοχῆσ τυγχάνειν ὑπο τῶν ἀκουόντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 7 4:4)

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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