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ὀλιγανθρωπία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: oliganthrōpia

Principal Part: ὀλιγανθρωπία

Structure: ὀλιγανθρωπι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from ὀλιγάνθρωπος

Sense

  1. scantiness of men

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀλιγανθρωπία ὀλιγανθρωπία ὀλιγανθρωπίαι
Genitive ὀλιγανθρωπίας ὀλιγανθρωπίαιν ὀλιγανθρωπιῶν
Dative ὀλιγανθρωπίᾳ ὀλιγανθρωπίαιν ὀλιγανθρωπίαις
Accusative ὀλιγανθρωπίαν ὀλιγανθρωπία ὀλιγανθρωπίας
Vocative ὀλιγανθρωπία ὀλιγανθρωπία ὀλιγανθρωπίαι

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

  • ὀλιγανθρωπία γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἄστει γέγονε. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 3:6)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν δὴ θαυμαστὸν ὄν, ὅτε κατ ἀρχὰς πρῶτον ἐγένετο ἐν τοῖς παρ ὑμῖν τόποις, πολέμου τινὸς αὐτό, ὥς γ εἰκός, νομοθετήσαντος ἤ τινος ἑτέρου τὴν αὐτὴν δύναμιν ἔχοντος πράγματος ἐν ὀλιγανθρωπίαις ὑπὸ πολλῆς ἀπορίας ἐχομένοις, γευσαμένοις δὲ καὶ ἀναγκασθεῖσι χρήσασθαι τοῖς συσσιτίοις ἔδοξεν μέγα διαφέρειν εἰς σωτηρίαν τὸ νόμιμον, καὶ κατέστη δὴ τρόπῳ τινὶ τοιούτῳ τὸ ἐπιτήδευμα ὑμῖν τὸ τῶν συσσιτίων. (Plato, Laws, book 6 202:1)
  • ἐπέσχεν ἐν τοῖς καθ ἡμᾶς καιροῖς τὴν Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἀπαιδία καὶ συλλήβδην ὀλιγανθρωπία, δι ἣν αἵ τε πόλεις ἐξηρημώθησαν καὶ ἀφορίαν εἶναι συνέβαινε, καίπερ οὔτε πολέμων συνεχῶν ἐσχηκότων ἡμᾶς οὔτε λοιμικῶν περιστάσεων. (Polybius, Histories, book 36, ii. bellum macedonicum 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. scantiness of men

Related

명사

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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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