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περικάκησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περικάκησις περικάκησεως

Structure: περικακησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. extreme ill-luck

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

  • τότε προδήλου τῆσ αἰκίασ διὰ τὴν περικάκησιν ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν τοῖσ ἡγεμόσιν ὑπαρχούσησ, ἔκριναν οἱ περὶ τὸν Αὐτάριτον καὶ Ζάρζαν καὶ Σπένδιον ἐγχειρίζειν ἑαυτοὺσ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ καὶ διαλαλεῖν περὶ διαλύσεωσ Ἀμίλκᾳ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 85 2:1)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν πολλαὶ τῶν γυναικῶν, ἡδέωσ ὁρῶσαι τὴν δυσθυμίαν καὶ περικάκησιν αὐτῆσ, ἀπεσιώπων· (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 29 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. extreme ill-luck

Similar forms

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

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