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σεισάχθεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεισάχθεια

Structure: σεισαχθει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sei/w, a)/xqos

Sense

  1. a shaking off of burdens, the disburdening ordinance

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

  • καὶ οὗτοσ ὁ νόμοσ ἐκλήθη σεισάχθεια· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. SOLWN 1:5)
  • αἱρεθεὶσ δὲ δικτάτωρ ὑπὸ τῆσ βουλῆσ φυγάδασ τε κατήγαγε, καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ Σύλλα δυστυχησάντων τοὺσ παῖδασ ἐπιτίμουσ ἐποίησε, καὶ σεισαχθείᾳ τινὶ τόκων ἐκούφιζε τοὺσ χρεωφειλέτασ, ἄλλων τε τοιούτων ἥψατο πολιτευμάτων οὐ πολλῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἡμέραισ ἕνδεκα τὴν μὲν μοναρχίαν ἀπειπάμενοσ, ὕπατον δὲ ἀναδείξασ ἑαυτὸν καὶ Σερουΐλιον Ἰσαυρικόν, εἴχετο τῆσ στρατείασ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 37 1:2)

Related

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

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