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κατασκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκοπή

Structure: κατασκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kataskope/w

Sense

  1. a viewing closely, spying

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

  • προσσχόντεσ οὖν καὶ ἀποβάντεσ ὡσ ἂν ἐκ μακρᾶσ ταλαιπωρίασ πολὺν μὲν χρόνον ἐπὶ γῆσ ἐκείμεθα, διαναστάντεσ δὲ ὅμωσ ἀπεκρίναμεν ἡμῶν αὐτῶν τριάκοντα μὲν φύλακασ τῆσ νεὼσ παραμένειν, εἴκοσι δὲ σὺν ἐμοὶ ἀνελθεῖν ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ τῶν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 6:5)
  • Πενθέα ὑβρίζοντα ἐσ Διόνυσον καὶ ἄλλα τολμᾶν λέγουσι καὶ τέλοσ ἐσ τὸν Κιθαιρῶνα ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ τῶν γυναικῶν, ἀναβάντα δὲ ἐσ δένδρον θεάσασθαι τὰ ποιούμενα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 13:2)
  • ἄνδρεσ τοῦ Ὀξύλου στρατεύματοσ ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ τῶν ἐν Ἤλιδι ἀποπεμφθέντεσ καὶ ἀλλήλοισ διακελευσάμενοι κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ἐπειδὰν πλησίον γίνωνται τοῦ τείχουσ, φθέγγεσθαι μὲν μηδὲν ἔτι αὐτοί, ἐπακροᾶσθαι δὲ εἴ τι παρὰ τῶν ἐντὸσ πυθέσθαι δυνήσονται, οὗτοι λανθάνουσι παρελθόντεσ ἐσ τὴν πόλιν κατὰ τὴν ἀγυιὰν ταύτην καὶ ἐπακούσαντεσ ὁπόσα ἐβούλοντο ἐπανίασιν αὖθισ ἐσ τοὺσ Αἰτωλούσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 13:4)
  • Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ ἐπεπόμφεσαν καὶ οὐ πολλῷ τινι ἔμπροσθεν λόγῳ μὲν ἐπικουρήσοντασ Αἰτωλοῖσ ἐναντία Φιλίππου, τῷ δὲ ἔργῳ μᾶλλόν τι ἐπὶ κατασκοπῇ τῶν ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ πραγμάτων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a viewing closely

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

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