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παράγγελσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράγγελσις παράγγελσεως

Structure: παραγγελσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from paragge/llw

Sense

  1. a giving the word of command

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

  • αὐτὸν ἐφ’ αὑτοῦ τι κατὰ μόνασ δρᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἔν τε πολέμῳ παντὶ καὶ ἐν εἰρήνῃ πάσῃ πρὸσ τὸν ἄρχοντα ἀεὶ βλέποντα καὶ συνεπόμενον ζῆν, καὶ τὰ βραχύταθ’ ὑπ’ ἐκείνου κυβερνώμενον, οἱο͂ν ἑστάναι θ’ ὅταν ἐπιτάττῃ τισ καὶ πορεύεσθαι καὶ γυμνάζεσθαι καὶ λοῦσθαι καὶ σιτεῖσθαι καὶ ἐγείρεσθαι νύκτωρ εἴσ τε φυλακὰσ καὶ παραγγέλσεισ, καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ κινδύνοισ μήτε τινὰ διώκειν μήθ’ ὑποχωρεῖν ἄλλῳ ἄνευ τῆσ τῶν ἀρχόντων δηλώσεωσ, ἑνί τε λόγῳ τὸ χωρίσ τι τῶν ἄλλων πράττειν διδάξαι τὴν ψυχὴν ἔθεσι μήτε γιγνώσκειν μήτ’ ἐπίστασθαι τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλ’ ἁθρόον ἀεὶ καὶ ἅμα καὶ κοινὸν τὸν βίον ὅτι μάλιστα πᾶσι πάντων γίγνεσθαι ‐ τούτου γὰρ οὔτ’ ἔστιν οὔτε ποτὲ μὴ γένηται κρεῖττον οὔτε ἄμεινον οὔτε τεχνικώτερον εἰσ σωτηρίαν τὴν κατὰ πόλεμον καὶ νίκην ‐ τοῦτο ἐν εἰρήνῃ μελετητέον εὐθὺσ ἐκ τῶν παίδων, ἄρχειν τε ἄλλων ἄρχεσθαί θ’ ὑφ’ ἑτέρων· (Plato, Laws, book 12 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a giving the word of command

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

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