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πεμπάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 이형 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεμπάς πεμπάδος

Structure: πεμπαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpe

Sense

  1. a body of five

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

  • "δῆλον δ’ ὅτι συνοικειοῦσιν αὐτῷ τὴν πεμπάδα, νῦν μὲν αὐτὴν ἑαυτὴν ὡσ τὸ πῦρ αὖθισ δὲ τὴν δεκάδα ποιοῦσαν ἐξ ἑαυτῆσ ὡσ τὸν κόσμον. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 102)
  • εἶτα τῷ κοινῷ νόμῳ πολεμοῦντασ ἅμα καὶ τῷ πολλῷ χρόνῳ τοὺσ σοφοὺσ ἀποφανοῦμεν ἄνδρασ, εἰ τὴν ἑβδομάδα τῆσ προεδρίασ παρώσαντεσ τῷ θεῷ τὴν πεμπάδα καθιέρωσαν ὡσ μᾶλλόν τι προσήκουσαν. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 174)
  • ἔτι δὲ πρὸσ τούτοισ ἐννοήσασ ὅτι περὶ ὁπόσων ἂν ἐγγένωνται ἀνθρώποισ φιλονικίαι, πολὺ μᾶλλον ἐθέλουσι ταῦτ’ ἀσκεῖν, ἀγῶνάσ τε αὐτοῖσ προεῖπεν ἁπάντων ὁπόσα ἐγίγνωσκεν ἀσκεῖσθαι ἀγαθὸν εἶναι ὑπὸ στρατιωτῶν καὶ προεῖπε τάδε, ἰδιώτῃ μὲν ἑαυτὸν παρέχειν εὐπειθῆ τοῖσ ἄρχουσι καὶ ἐθελόπονον καὶ φιλοκίνδυνον μετ’ εὐταξίασ καὶ ἐπιστήμονα τῶν στρατιωτικῶν καὶ φιλόκαλον περὶ ὅπλα καὶ φιλότιμον ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ τοιούτοισ, πεμπαδάρχῳ δ’ αὐτὸν ὄντα οἱο͂́νπερ τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἰδιώτην καὶ τὴν πεμπάδα εἰσ τὸ δυνατὸν τοιαύτην παρέχειν, δεκαδάρχῳ δὲ τὴν δεκάδα ὡσαύτωσ, λοχαγῷ δὲ τὸν λόχον, καὶ ταξιάρχῳ ἀνεπίκλητον αὐτὸν ὄντα ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ τῶν ὑφ’ αὑτῷ ἀρχόντων ὅπωσ ἐκεῖνοι αὖ ὧν ἂν ἄρχωσι παρέξουσι τὰ δέοντα ποιοῦντασ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 27:1)
  • ἐκάλει δὲ ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ τῶν ταξιάρχων οὓσ καιρὸσ αὐτῷ δοκοίη εἶναι, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ τῶν λοχαγῶν καὶ τῶν δεκαδάρχων τινὰσ καὶ τῶν πεμπαδάρχων ἐκάλει, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ πεμπάδα ὅλην καὶ δεκάδα ὅλην καὶ λόχον ὅλον καὶ τάξιν ὅλην. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 36:2)

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

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