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πρεσβεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβεία

Structure: πρεσβει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: presbeu/w

Sense

  1. age, seniority
  2. rank, dignity
  3. an embassy, embassage
  4. the body of ambassadors, the Embassy, the ambassadors, elders.

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

  • δισχιλίουσ γὰρ αἰχμαλώτουσ ἄνευ λύτρων καὶ χίλια πολιτῶν σώματα χωρὶσ κήρυκοσ καὶ τὸν Ὠρωπὸν ἄνευ πρεσβείασ λαβὼν ὑμῖν ταῦτ’ ἔγραψα. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 9:6)
  • εἶτα Λυκίσκοσ, ἐφ’ οὗ τὴν ἑβδόμην τῶν Φιλιππικῶν δημηγοριῶν διέθετο πρὸσ τὰσ ἐκ Πελοποννήσου πρεσβείασ, ταύτην τὴν ἀρχὴν ποιησάμενοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 10 2:6)
  • μετὰ Λυκίσκον ἔστιν ἄρχων Πυθόδοτοσ, ἐφ’ οὗ τὴν ὀγδόην τῶν Φιλιππικῶν δημηγοριῶν διέθετο πρὸσ τοὺσ Φιλίππου πρέσβεισ, ἧσ ἐστιν ἀρχή ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐκ ἔστιν, ὅπωσ αἱ αἰτίαι, καὶ τὸν κατ’ Αἰσχίνου συνετάξατο λόγον, ὅτε τὰσ εὐθύνασ ἐδίδου τῆσ δευτέρασ πρεσβείασ τῆσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 10 2:8)
  • "ἐγὼ πολλὰσ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐπρέσβευσα πρεσβείασ. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 15:6)
  • καίτοι τί μέροσ ἐστὶ τῶν ὑπὸ Τιμοθέου πεπραγμένων ἀγαθῶν ἃσ Δημοσθένησ ἐπρέσβευσεν εἰσ Θήβασ πρεσβείασ; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. age

  2. rank

  3. the body of ambassadors

Related

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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