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σιτοπομπία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτοπομπία

Structure: σιτοπομπι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpw

Sense

  1. the conveyance or convoy of corn

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

  • οὐ τὴν σιτοπομπίαν, ὅπωσ παρὰ πᾶσαν φιλίαν ἄχρι τοῦ Πειραιῶσ κομισθήσεται, προϊδέσθαι; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 425:3)
  • ἃ δὴ πυθόμενοσ ὁ δῆμοσ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐξέπεμψε στόλον παραφυλάξοντα τὴν σιτοπομπίαν, ὃσ καὶ διέπεμψεν εἰσ τὸν Πειραιέα τὴν κομιζομένην ἀγοράν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 34 4:4)
  • τελευτῶντεσ δὲ παρείλοντο μὲν τὴν σιτοπομπίαν, ἐλάβοντο δὲ τὰσ ναῦσ, τὰ δὲ τείχη κατέσκαψαν ταῖσ ἡμετέραισ αὐτῶν χερσὶν, ὦ Ζεῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. the conveyance or convoy of corn

Related

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

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