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σκῆψις?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: skēpsis

Principal Part: σκῆψις σκῆψεως

Structure: σκηψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: σκήπτω

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

  • σκῆψις γὰρ ἡ νόσος καὶ φυγὴ τῶν καθηκόντων ἔδοξεν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 31:5)
  • εἰ χέρσῳ ταφὰς θεῖναι κελεύσει ς, οὐδὲν ἡ σκῆψις φέρει. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 17:27)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ λόγος οὐδὲ σκῆψις ἔθ ὑμῖν τοῦ μὴ τὰ δέοντα ποιεῖν ἐθέλειν ὑπολείπεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 8:2)
  • τοιάδε μέντοι σκῆψις οὐ δόλον φέρει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 5:12)
  • θαυμάζω γὰρ ἔγωγε, εἴ τίς ἐστιν πρόφασις παρ ὑμῖν ἢ σκῆψις ηὑρημένη δι ἥν, ἂν ὑβρίζων τις ἐξελέγχηται καὶ τύπτων, δίκην οὐ δώσει. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 27:3)

Synonyms

  1. a pretext

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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