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ἡμίσεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίσεια

Structure: ἡμισει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: v. sub h(/misus.

Sense

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 δὲ ἡμίσειαν τὴν τῶν ψιλῶν, καὶ ταύτησ ἔτι ἡμίσειαν τὴν τῶν ἱππέων. (Arrian, chapter 9 8:2)
  • ἐπὰν ἰδιώτην ἄνδρα μονοσιτοῦντ’ ἴδῃσ ἢ μὴ ποθοῦντ’ ᾠδὰσ ποιητὴν καὶ μέλη, τὸν μὲν ἰδιώτην τοῦ βίου τὸν ἥμισυν ἀπολωλεκέναι νόμιζε, τὸν δὲ τῆσ τέχνησ τὴν ἡμίσειαν ζῶσι δ’ ἀμφότεροι μόλισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 282)
  • καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα περιέπλασα τοῦ χοίρου τὴν ἡμίσειαν, ὡσ ὁρᾶτε, ἀλφίτοισ πολλοῖσ κριθῆσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 26 6:3)
  • ἐξέπλευσεν δὴ τὰ πλοῖα μετὰ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐκέτι μοι δυνατὸν ἦν πλεῖν, ὅτε δή μοι καὶ Διονύσιοσ ἐμνήσθη λέγων ὅτι τὴν ἡμίσειαν τῆσ οὐσίασ εἶναι δέοι Δίωνοσ, τὴν δ’ ἡμίσειαν τοῦ ὑέοσ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 155:3)

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

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