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ὄφλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄφλημα ὄφληματος

Structure: ὀφληματ (Stem)

Etym.: from o)fliska/nw

Sense

  1. a fine incurred in a lawsuit

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

  • Ἄμεινον οὕτωσ, εἰ καὶ ἡμῖν παρατείνοιτο ὑπὸ σοῦ τὸ ὄφλημα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:5)
  • ἐὰν δὲ ἀργυρίου τιμηθῇ, δεῖ αὐτὸν δεδέσθαι, ἑώσ ἂν ἐκτείσῃ τό τε πρότερον ὄφλημα ἐφ’ ᾧ ἐνεδείχθη, καὶ ὅ τι ἂν αὐτῷ προστιμήσῃ τὸ δικαστήριον. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 63 3:4)
  • "ἢ τὸ βῆμά σου δοκεῖσ καταγράφειν τοὺσ ὑφάντασ καὶ τοὺσ καπήλουσ, οὐχὶ τοὺσ πρώτουσ καὶ κρατίστουσ ταῦτα ποιεῖν, παρὰ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων στρατηγῶν ἐπιδόσεισ καὶ θέασ καὶ μονομάχουσ, παρὰ σοῦ δὲ ὡσ ὄφλημα πατρικὸν τὴν κατάλυσιν τῆσ τυραννίδοσ ἀπαιτοῦντασ, αὐτοὺσ δ’ ὑπὲρ σοῦ πάντα πάσχειν προθύμουσ ὄντασ, οἱο͂ν ἀξιοῦσι καὶ προσδέχονται φανέντοσ; (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 10 3:3)
  • ἐξ ὧν ὄφλημα βαρὺ καὶ παρ’ ἡλικίαν αὐτῷ συνήχθη πεντήκοντα καὶ διακοσίων ταλάντων. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 2 3:2)
  • ἂν δέ, ὃ τυχὸν γένοιτ’ ἄν, χρόνοσ διέλθῃ καὶ μὴ ἐκτεισθῇ τὸ ὄφλημα, τί μᾶλλον οἱ τούτου παῖδεσ ἔσονται τῶν ἐμῶν ἐγγεγραμμένοι, ὅταν τοὔνομα καὶ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ἡ φυλὴ καὶ πάντ’ ᾖ ταὐτά; (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 19:3)

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

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