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κρυπτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρυπτεία

Structure: κρυπτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: krupteu/w

Sense

  1. a secret commission

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

  • καλέσασ δὲ Δαμοτέλη τὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ κρυπτείασ τεταγμένον, ὁρᾶν ἐκέλευσε καὶ ζητεῖν ὅπωσ ἔχει τὰ κατὰ νώτου καὶ κύκλῳ τῆσ παρατάξεωσ, τοῦ δὲ Δαμοτέλουσ ἡ̓͂ν γὰρ, ὡσ λέγεται, χρήμασιν πρότερον ὑπ’ Ἀντιγόνου διεφθαρμένοσ ἀμελεῖν̓ ἐκείνων εἰπόντοσ ὡσ καλῶσ ἐχόντων, τοῖσ δὲ συνάπτουσιν ἐξ ἐναντίασ προσέχειν καὶ τούτουσ ἀμύνεσθαι, πιστεύσασ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀντίγονον ἐχώρει, καὶ τῇ ῥύμῃ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν Σπαρτιατῶν ὠσάμενοσ τὴν φάλαγγα τῶν Μακεδόνων ἐπὶ πέντε που σταδίουσ ὑποχωρούντων ἐκβιαζόμενοσ καὶ κρατῶν ἠκολούθησεν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 28 3:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἔγωγε προσθείην Λυκούργῳ μιαρὸν οὕτω τῆσ κρυπτείασ ἔργον ἀπὸ τῆσ ἄλλησ αὐτοῦ πρᾳότητοσ καὶ δικαιοσύνησ τεκμαιρόμενοσ τὸν τρόπον, ᾧ καὶ τὸ δαιμόνιον ἐπεμαρτύρησε. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 28 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a secret commission

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

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