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περίστασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίστασις περίστασεως

Structure: περιστασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: peristh=nai

Sense

  1. a standing round, a crowd standing round
  2. circumstances, a state of affairs, critical times
  3. outward pomp and circumstance

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

  • "πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο κλεινὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ διὰ στόματοσ ἦν ἅπασιν, ὁ φιλόσοφοσ διὰ τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὴν ἄγαν ἐλευθερίαν ἐξελαθείσ, καὶ προσήλαυνε κατὰ τοῦτο τῷ Μουσωνίῳ καὶ Δίωνι καὶ Ἐπικτήτῳ καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἐν περιστάσει τοιαύτῃ ἐγένετο. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:43)
  • πᾶσι δὲ φιλανθρώπωσ ὁμιλῶν καὶ καθιστὰσ εἰσ ἀγαθὰσ ἐλπίδασ ἑτοίμουσ εἶχε καὶ προθύμουσ ἐν πάσῃ περιστάσει τοὺσ συγκινδυνεύοντασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 91 5:2)
  • "ἐν πάσῃ περιστάσει τηρήσω τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν κατὰ φύσιν ἔχον. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 4:1)
  • προτερεῖ δὲ ἀστραπὴ βροντῆσ ἐν τοιᾷδέ τινι περιστάσει νεφῶν καὶ διὰ τὸ ἅμα τῷ τὸ πνεῦμα ἐμπίπτειν ἐξωθεῖσθαι τὸν ἀστραπῆσ ἀποτελεστικὸν σχηματισμόν, ὕστερον δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα ἀνειλούμενον τὸν βόμβον ἀποτελεῖν τοῦτον· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 102:3)
  • οἱ δὲ μισθοφόροι περιαλγεῖσ ὄντεσ τῇ περιστάσει καὶ μὴ δυνάμενοι τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ ἀμύνασθαι, λιμῷ διεφθάρησαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 11 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. circumstances

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

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