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καταβοή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταβοή καταβοῆς

Structure: καταβο (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an outcry against

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

  • τάσ τ’ οὖν ἀγορὰσ διὰ φυλακῆσ ἔχετε, καὶ τῆσ τιμῆσ τῶν ὠνίων μηθὲν ἀνίετε, ἀλλ’ ὅσου πλείστου ποτὲ ἦν τὰ ὤνια, τοσούτου καὶ νῦν αὐτὰ πωλεῖν ψηφίσασθε δικαίασ ἀφορμὰσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ προφάσεισ εὐλόγουσ τήν τ’ ἀχάριστον τοῦ δήμου καταβοήν, ὡσ ὐφ’ ἡμῶν κατασκευασθείσησ τῆσ σιτοδείασ, ἣ διὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν τὴν ἐκείνων ἐγένετο καὶ τὴν καταφθοράν, ἣν ἐποιήσαντο, τῆσ γῆσ, ἄγοντεσ αὐτὴν καὶ φέροντεσ ὥσπερ πολεμίαν, καὶ τὰσ ἐξαιρεθείσασ ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου δαπάνασ εἰσ τοὺσ ἀποσταλέντασ ἐπὶ τὴν σιτωνίαν ἄνδρασ, καὶ ἄλλα πολλά τιν’, ἃ ἠδίκησθε ὑπ’ αὐτῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 24 3:1)
  • τούτοισ ἀναπεισθέντεσ οἱ Γαδαρεῖσ οὐ μικρὰν καταβοὴν ἐποιήσαντο θράσει τοῦ μηδὲ τοὺσ ὑπὸ Ἀγρίππα παραδοθέντασ ἐν τιμωρίᾳ γενέσθαι διιέντοσ Ἡρώδου καὶ μηδὲν κακὸν εἰργασμένου· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 424:1)

Synonyms

  1. an outcry against

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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