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κάταρσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάταρσις κάταρσεως

Structure: καταρσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: katai/rw

Sense

  1. a landing-place

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

  • ἐκπέμψαι πλοῖα, καὶ στρατιώτασ ἐπὶ τὰσ κατάρσεισ παραφυλάξοντασ· (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 18 8:1)
  • παραπλέων δὲ τὴν χώραν ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ, ᾗπερ κατάρσεισ ἀναγκαίασ καὶ καταφυγὰσ ἑώρα τοῖσ πολεμίοισ, ἐνεχάραττε κατὰ τῶν λίθων ἐπιφανῆ γράμματα, τοὺσ μὲν εὑρίσκων ἀπὸ τύχησ, τοὺσ δ’ αὐτὸσ ἱστὰσ περὶ τὰ ναύλοχα καὶ τὰσ ὑδρείασ, ἐπισκήπτων Ιὤσι διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων, εἰ μὲν οἱο͂́ν τε, μετατάξασθαι πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ πατέρασ ὄντασ καὶ προκινδυνεύοντασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἐκείνων ἐλευθερίασ, εἰ δὲ μή, κακοῦν τὸ βαρβαρικὸν ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ καὶ συνταράττειν. (Plutarch, , chapter 9 1:2)
  • ἀναγωγαὶ δὲ καὶ κατάρσεισ καὶ πλήθουσ ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ὠνίων καὶ νεῶν πανηγύρεωσ καὶ λιμένοσ καὶ ἀγορᾶσ ἐστιν ἐγκώμιον, οὐ πόλεωσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 49:6)

Synonyms

  1. a landing-place

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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