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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

  • μολεῖν χρὴ πρῶτον εἰσ κατασκοπήν. (Euripides, episode, trochees 11:36)
  • <Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ ὅτι ἐλθὼν Θησεὺσ εἰσ Σκῦρον ἐπὶ κατασκοπὴν εἰκότωσ διὰ τὴν Αἰγέωσ συγγένειαν . (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., 15)
  • ἐν τοσούτῳ δὲ κακῷ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ὄντων οὐκ ἔλαθεν ὁ κίνδυνοσ τὸν Φάβιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ μέλλον, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἤδη προειληφώσ τήν τε δύναμιν συντεταγμένην εἶχεν ἐπὶ τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τὰ πραττόμενα γινώσκειν ἐφρόντιζεν οὐ δι’ ἀγγέλων, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ ἔχων κατασκοπὴν πρὸ τοῦ χάρακοσ. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 12 1:1)
  • δεύτερον δὲ τῶν αὑτῶν ἐπερχομένων μυριάσι πολλαῖσ καὶ δειναῖσ ἀπειλαῖσ, ὥστε καὶ τὸ μένειν ἄνδρα Ῥωμαῖον ἐν τάξει τότε καὶ τ πείθεσθαι τῷ στρατηγῷ μέγα ἔργον εἶναι, Μάριοσ μὲν ἡγεῖτο, Σερτώριοσ δὲ κατασκοπὴν ὑπέστη τῶν πολεμίων, ἐσθῆτι δὲ Κελτικῇ σκευασάμενοσ καὶ τὰ κοινότατα τῆσ διαλέκτου πρὸσ ἔντευξιν ἐπὶ καιροῦ παραλαβών, ἀναμίγνυται τοῖσ βαρβάροισ· (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 3 2:1)
  • ἀντὶ τῶν ὁμοίων, ὡσ ὁ Διομήδησ ἐπὶ τὴν κατασκοπὴν μεθ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὸν φρόνιμον εἵλετο, τοὺσ ἀνδρείουσ παρελθών. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 26 2:1)

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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