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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

  • ὅπου γὰρ ἄνδρεσ θεοὺσ μὲν σέβοιεν, πολεμικὰ δὲ ἀσκοῖεν, πειθαρχίαν δὲ μελετῷεν, πῶσ οὐκ εἰκὸσ ἐνταῦθα πάντα μεστὰ ἐλπίδων ἀγαθῶν εἶναι; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 29:2)
  • Ὁμολογεῖ δὲ ποιήσειν Σαοῦλοσ τὰ προστασσόμενα, τὴν δὲ πειθαρχίαν τὴν πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν οὐκ ἐν τῷ ποιήσασθαι τὴν πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἀμαληκίτασ στρατείαν λογιζόμενοσ εἶναι μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἑτοιμότητα καὶ τὸ τάχοσ ἀναβολῆσ οὐ προσούσησ ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐμφανίζει, ἀθροίζει τε πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν καὶ ταύτην ἐξαριθμήσασ ἐν Γαλγάλοισ εὑρίσκει τῶν Ἰσραηλιτῶν ἔξω τῆσ Ιοὔδα φυλῆσ περὶ τεσσαράκοντα μυριάδασ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 174:1)

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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