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πάθη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάθη πάθης

Structure: παθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: paqei=n

Sense

  1. a passive state, what happened, that had happened

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

  • ἔμφρον μέν που, τὸ δὲ ἄφρον θήσομεν, ἄρχον δέ, τὸ δὲ ἀρχόμενον, καὶ τὸ μὲν αἴτιον ἁπάντων, τὸ δὲ ἀναίτιον πάσησ πάθησ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 74:1)
  • Οὐάριον δὲ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Διονύσιον περὶ Λῆμνον ἐν ἐρήμῃ νήσῳ καταλαβών, ἔνθα δείκνυται βωμὸσ Φιλοκτήτου καὶ χαλκοῦσ ὄφισ καὶ τόξα καὶ θώραξ ταινίαισ περίδετοσ, μνῆμα τῆσ ἐκείνου πάθησ, ἐπέπλει μὲν αὐτοῖσ ῥοθίῳ τε πολλῷ καὶ μετὰ καταφρονήσεωσ, εὐσταθῶσ δ’ ἐκείνων ὑπομενόντων ἔστησε τὴν εἰρεσίαν, καὶ κατὰ δύο ναῦσ ἐπιπέμπων ἠρέθιζεν ἐσ ἔκπλουν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 6:5)
  • τούτοισ δ’ εἰσὶν ἄρχοντεσ προστεταγμένοι ἑκάστοισ ἐπὶ τὸ σμικρότατον ἀεὶ πάθησ καὶ πράξεωσ, εἰσ μερισμὸν τὸν ἔσχατον τέλοσ ἀπειργασμένοι· (Plato, Laws, book 10 113:4)
  • ὥστε ὁρ́α μὴ τοιοῦτό τι πάθῃσ μείζω περὶ ἡμῶν ἐλπίσασ, οἱο͂́ν τι πάσχουσιν οἱ τὰ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ὁρῶντεσ· (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 6:6)
  • Θάρρει, οὐδὲν δεινὸν μὴ πάθῃσ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 311)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴ σύ γε πάθῃσ τὸ αὐτό· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 5:12)
  • ὃ μὴ πάθῃσ σύ· (Euripides, episode 14:2)
  • ἴσχε στόμ’, ὡσ μὴ μέγα λέγων μεῖζον πάθῃσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:29)

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

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