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ἡμέρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμέρωσις ἡμέρωσεως

Structure: ἡμερωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a taming: civilising

Declension

Third 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

  • "εἰ δὲ αὐτὸσ οὔτε πλούτου δέῃ δι’ αὐτάρκειαν οὔτε δόξαν ἀρχῆσ καὶ δυναστείασ ἐζήλωκασ κρείσσονα τὴν ἀπ’ ἀρετῆσ ἔχων, ἀλλ’ ὑπηρεσίαν γε θεοῦ τὸ βασιλεύειν ἡγούμενοσ, ὅσ γε ἀνίστησι καὶ οὐκ ἐᾷ κεῖσθαι καὶ ἀργεῖν τὴν ἐν σοὶ τοσαύτην δικαιοσύνην, μὴ φεῦγε μηδὲ ἀποδίδρασκε τὴν ἀρχήν, ἀνδρὶ φρονίμῳ πράξεων καλῶν καὶ μεγάλων οὖσαν χώραν, ἐν ᾗ καὶ θεραπεῖαι θεῶν μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ εἰσι καὶ πρὸσ εὐσέβειαν ἀνθρώπων ἡμερώσεισ ῥᾷστα καὶ τάχιστα μετακοσμουμένων ὑπὸ τὸν κρατοῦντοσ, οὗτοι καὶ Τάτιον ἔστερξαν ἔπηλυν ἡγεμόνα, καὶ τὴν Ῥωμύλου μνήμην ἀποθεοῦσι ταῖσ τιμαῖσ. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 6 2:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο αὐτῷ δηλοῦν τῆσ γῆσ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 27:2)
  • μᾶλλον οὖν πρέπειν τῷ γεγονότι κατὰ τοὺσ ἀρχαίουσ χρόνουσ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν τῆσ χώρασ, κατισχυομένων ἔτι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν θηρίων, καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὴν ὑπερκειμένην χώραν μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ἔρημον οὖσαν καὶ θηριώδη. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 24 6:1)
  • οὐ παραλειπτέον δ’ ἡμῖν οὐδὲ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆσ περὶ τὴν ἡμέρωσιν φιλοτιμίασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 39 5:1)
  • Ἀθηνᾷ δὲ προσάπτουσι τήν τε τῶν ἐλαιῶν ἡμέρωσιν καὶ φυτείαν παραδοῦναι τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ τὴν τοῦ καρποῦ τούτου κατεργασίαν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 73 7:1)

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

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