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ἰατρεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰατρεία

Structure: ἰατρει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: i)atreu/w

Sense

  1. medical treatment, a curing, correcting

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

  • ἐγὼ γοῦν, εἰ μὲν ὀρθῶσ οὐκ οἶδα, ταύτην δὲ τῆσ ἰατρείασ ἀρχὴν ποιησάμενοσ, ὥσπερ οἱ Λάκωνεσ ἐν τοῖσ εἵλωσι τὸ μεθύειν οἱο͂́ν ἐστι, κατεμάνθανον τὴν ὀργὴν ἐν ἑτέροισ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 61)
  • ἐγὼ γοῦν, εἰ μὲν ὀρθῶσ οὐκ οἶδα, ταύτην δὲ τῆσ ἰατρείασ ἀρχὴν ποιησάμενοσ, ὥσπερ οἱ Λάκωνεσ ἐν τοῖσ εἵλωσι τὸ μεθύειν οἱο͂́ν ἐστι, κατεμάνθανον τὴν ὀργὴν ἐν ἑτέροισ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 61)
  • "περὶ θεῶν δὲ θνητὸν ῥᾴδιον βέβαιον εἰπεῖν ἄλλο, πλὴν ὅτι τὸν καιρὸν εἰδὼσ ἄριστα τῆσ περὶ τὴν κακίαν ἰατρείασ ὡσ φάρμακον ἑκάστῳ προσφέρει τὴν κόλασιν, οὔτε μεγέθουσ μέτρον κοινὸν οὔτε χρόνον ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ πάντων ἔχουσαν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 46)
  • "Κλεωναῖοι δὲ τῆσ αὐτῆσ οὐ τυχόντεσ ἰατρείασ εἰσ τὸ μηδὲν ἥκουσι. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 7 3:11)
  • "τὸ γὰρ ἐκ πονηροῦ σώματοσ γιγνόμενον σῶμα τιμωρίασ μὲν οὐδεμιᾶσ ἰατρείασ δὲ καὶ φυλακῆσ ἄξιόν ἐστιν· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 19 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. medical treatment

Related

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

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