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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

  • οὔτε γὰρ σῖτοσ ἦν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ, ἀσπόρῳ διὰ τὸν πόλεμον γεγονυίᾳ, οὔθ’ ἡ σιτοπομπία δυνατὴ τριήρων οὐσῶν ὑμετέρων ἐκεῖ καὶ τῆσ θαλάττησ κρατουσῶν, αἵ τε πόλεισ πολλαὶ καὶ χαλεπαὶ λαβεῖν αἱ τῶν Φωκέων, μὴ οὐ χρόνῳ καὶ πολιορκίᾳ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 160:4)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Δαφναῖον προαγαγόντεσ τὰσ δυνάμεισ ἐπεχείρουν μὲν πολιορκεῖν τὴν παρεμβολὴν τῶν Καρχηδονίων, πολυτελῶσ δ’ αὐτὴν ὁρῶντεσ ὠχυρωμένην ταύτησ μὲν τῆσ ἐπιβολῆσ ἀπέστησαν, τὰσ δ’ ὁδοὺσ ἱππαζόμενοι τούσ τ’ ἐν ταῖσ προνομαῖσ αὐτῶν κατελάμβανον καὶ τῶν σιτοπομπιῶν ἀποκλείοντεσ εἰσ πολλὴν ἀπορίαν ἦγον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 88 2:1)

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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