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πειθαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πειθαρχία

Structure: πειθαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. obedience to command

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀκούειν ὑπομένουσι τῶν προστατεῖν μὴ δυναμένων, ἀλλ’ ἡ πειθαρχία μάθημα μέν ἐστιν τοῦ ἄρχοντοσ ἐμποιεῖ γάρ ὁ καλῶσ ἄγων τὸ καλῶσ ἕπεσθαι· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 30 4:1)
  • ἡ δὲ πρὸσ αὐτὸν αἰδὼσ τὸν ἡγεμόνα καὶ πειθαρχία μετ’ εὐνοίασ, καὶ τὸ πάντασ ὁμαλῶσ, ἐνδόξουσ, ἀδόξουσ, ἄρχοντασ, ἰδιώτασ, τὴν παρὰ Ἀντωνίου τιμήν τε καὶ χάριν μᾶλλον αἱρεῖσθαι τῆσ σωτηρίασ καὶ τῆσ ἀσφαλείασ, οὐδὲ τοῖσ πάλαι Ῥωμαίοισ ἀπέλιπεν ὑπερβολήν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 43 2:2)
  • πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆσ εὐπραξίασ μήτηρ, γυνὴ σωτῆροσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 23)
  • τῶν δ’ ὀρθουμένων σῴζει τὰ πολλὰ σώμαθ’ ἡ πειθαρχία. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode20)
  • καὶ τῶν οἴκων δὲ τῆσ σωτηρίασ οὔσησ ἔν τε τῇ τῶν δεσποτῶν ὁμοφροσύνῃ καὶ ἐν τῇ τῶν οἰκετῶν πειθαρχίᾳ, πολλοὺσ ὅμωσ οἴκουσ ἀπώλεσεν ἥ τε δεσποτικὴ στάσισ καὶ ἡ κακοδουλία. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. obedience to command

Related

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

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