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κάθεξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάθεξις κάθεξεως

Structure: καθεξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kate/xw

Sense

  1. a holding, retention

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κάθεξις καθέξει καθέξεις
Genitive καθέξεως καθέξοιν καθέξεων
Dative καθέξει καθέξοιν καθέξεσιν*
Accusative κάθεξιν καθέξει καθέξεις
Vocative κάθεξι καθέξει καθέξεις

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 γὰρ ὧδ’ ἐποίσεισ, μέγιστοσ Ἑλλήνων ἔσει, καὶ μόνοσ καθέξεισ τἀν τῇ πόλει τῶν ξυμμάχων τ’ ἄρξεισ ἔχων τρίαιναν, ᾗ πολλὰ χρήματ’ ἐργάσει σείων τε καὶ ταράττων. (Aristotle, Agon, antistrophe2)
  • ἀμφοῖν γὰρ φιλίασ ἥδ’ ἀρχή τῇδε καθέξεισ αὐτόν, προσβάλλων ἀκοαῖσ ὀπτήρια θυμοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 61 3:1)
  • καὶ οὖν καὶ ὀλίγον ὕστερον ἀποθανὼν τοσοῦτον καθέξεισ τῆσ γῆσ ὅσον ἐξαρκεῖ ἐντεθάφθαι τῷ σώματι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 1 6:3)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ παρεγένετο, μεταστῆναι κελεύσασα τοὺσ ἔνδον, ἵνα μόνη διαλεχθείη πρὸσ μόνον, Ἆρ’, ἔφησεν, ὦ Ταρκύνιε, μετὰ παρρησίασ ἔξεστί μοι καὶ ἀκινδύνωσ ἅπαντα εἰπεῖν, ὅσα φρονῶ περὶ τῶν κοινῇ συμφερόντων, καὶ καθέξεισ οὓσ ἂν ἀκούσῃσ λόγουσ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 29 1:1)
  • ὧν δὲ ἡμεῖσ οἱ πολέμῳ λαβόντεσ οὐκ ἀξιοῦμεν ἄρχειν, τίνι λόγῳ σὺ καθέξεισ; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 8 6:9)

Similar forms

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

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