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σκῆψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκῆψις σκῆψεως

Structure: σκηψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: skh/ptw

Sense

  1. a pretext, plea, excuse, pretence, pretence of, a plea, excuse for

Declension

Third 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

  • νῦν δὲ τούτων οὐδεμίαν ὁρῶ τῶν σκήψεων ὑπόλογον οὖσαν ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ, οὐδὲ καινήν, ὥστε προσέχειν νῦν πρῶτον ἀκούσαντασ, ἀλλὰ μυριάκισ παρὰ τῶν κρινομένων εἰρημένην. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 38:3)
  • καίτοι τῶν σκήψεων τούτων οὐδεμί’ ἐστὶ πολιτικὴ οὐδὲ δικαία. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 135:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pretext

Related

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

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