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ἰσότης?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: isotēs

Principal Part: ἰσότης ἰσότες

Structure: ἰσοτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἴσος

Sense

  1. equality

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

  • μηδὲ τῷ μὲν μεγάλα, τῷ δὲ κομιδῇ μικρά παρατιθέσθω, μηδὲ τῷ μὲν ὁ μηρός, τῷ ἡ γνάθος συός, ἀλλ᾿ ἰσότης ἐπὶ πᾶσιν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:8)
  • καὶ γὰρ μέτρ ἀνθρώποισι καὶ μέρη σταθμῶν Ἰσότης ἔταξε κἀριθμὸν διώρισε, νυκτός τ ἀφεγγὲς βλέφαρον ἡλίου τε φῶς ἴσον βαδίζει τὸν ἐνιαύσιον κύκλον, κοὐδέτερον αὐτῶν φθόνον ἔχει νικώμενον. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 9:28)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν οἴκων ὃν ὁ Λυκοῦργος ὡρ´ισε φυλαττόντων ἀριθμὸν ἐν ταῖς διαδοχαῖς, καὶ πατρὸς παιδὶ τὸν κλῆρον ἀπολείποντος, ἁμῶς γέ πως ἡ τάξις αὕτη καὶ ἰσότης διαμένουσα τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνέφερεν ἁμαρτημάτων. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 5 1:2)
  • ὁ δὲ τῆς γῆς ἀναδασμὸς οὔτε τὸν Λυκοῦργον, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, ποιεῖ ψεκτὸν γενόμενος οὔτε τὸν Νομᾶν μὴ γενόμενος, τῷ μὲν γὰρ ἕδραν καὶ κρηπῖδα τῆς πολιτείας ἡ ἰσότης αὕτη παρέσχε, τὸν δὲ προσφάτου τῆς κληρουχίας οὔσης οὐδὲν ἤπειγεν ἄλλον ἐμβαλεῖν ἀναδασμὸν οὐδὲ κινεῖν τὴν πρώτην νέμησιν, ὡς εἰκός ἐστι, κατὰ χώραν μένουσαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 2 6:1)
  • καὶ οὕτως ἰσότης ἀναπληροῦται τῶν στεφάνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 10 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. equality

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

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