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ὀστρακισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀστρακισμός ὀστρακισμοῦ

Structure: ὀστρακισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ostracism

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ γὰρ συνέβη τοὺσ μὲν Σόλωνοσ νόμουσ ἀφανίσαι τὴν τυραννίδα διὰ τὸ μὴ χρῆσθαι, καινοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ θεῖναι τὸν Κλεισθένη στοχαζόμενον τοῦ πλήθουσ, ἐν οἷσ ἐτέθη καὶ ὁ περὶ τοῦ ὀστρακισμοῦ νόμοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 22 1:2)
  • πλεονάκισ δὲ τούτου γινομένου, καὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τυραννίδοσ ἐπιθυμούντων, ὁ δῆμοσ ἐπηνέχθη μιμήσασθαι τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ, καὶ νόμον θεῖναι παραπλήσιον τῷ παρ’ ἐκείνοισ γεγραμμένῳ περὶ ὀστρακισμοῦ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 81 40:3)

Synonyms

  1. ostracism

Related

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

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