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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

  • κύριοσ δὲ γενόμενοσ τῶν πραγμάτων Σόλων τόν τε δῆμον ἠλευθέρωσε καὶ ἐν τῷ παρόντι καὶ εἰσ τὸ μέλλον, κωλύσασ δανείζειν ἐπὶ τοῖσ σώμασιν, καὶ νόμουσ ἔθηκε καὶ χρεῶν ἀποκοπὰσ ἐποίησε, καὶ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ τῶν δημοσίων, ἃσ σεισάχθειαν καλοῦσιν, ὡσ ἀποσεισάμενοι τὸ βάροσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 6 1:1)
  • συνέβη γὰρ τῷ Σόλωνι μέλλοντι ποιεῖν τὴν σεισάχθειαν προειπεῖν τισι τῶν γνωρίμων, ἔπειθ’ ὡσ μὲν οἱ δημοτικοὶ λέγουσι, παραστρατηγηθῆναι διὰ τῶν φίλων, ὡσ δ’ οἱ βουλόμενοι βλασφημεῖν, καὶ αὐτὸν κοινωνεῖν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 6 2:2)
  • πάλιν δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἀποκοπῆσ τῶν χρεῶν καὶ τῶν δουλευόντων μὲν πρότερον, ἐλευθερωθέντων δὲ διὰ τὴν σεισάχθειαν· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 12 4:1)
  • Σόλων χρεῶν ἀποκοπὴν ἐν Ἀθήναισ ἐποίησε, σεισάχθειαν προσαγορεύσασ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 13 4:1)
  • Σόλων χρεῶν ἀποκοπὴν ἐν Ἀθήναισ ἐποίησε, σεισάχθειαν προσαγορεύσασ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 12 4:1)

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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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