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σκιατραφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκιατραφία

Structure: σκιατραφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a being brought up in the shade, a sedentary, effeminate life

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

  • "τὸ κακόηθεσ ἐξουσίαν προάγεται δι’ ὑμῶν ὥστε περὶ στρατηγίασ καὶ θριάμβου τολμᾷ λέγειν ἄνθρωποσ ἄτρωτοσ καὶ τῷ σώματι στίλβων ὑπὸ λειότητοσ καὶ σκιατραφίασ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ τοὺσ τοσούτοισ τραύμασι πεπαιδευμένουσ ἀρετὰσ καὶ κακίασ κρίνειν στρατηγῶν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 31 5:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ κελεύσαντοσ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ αἰχμαλώτουσ γυμνοὺσ πωλεῖν ἐπίπρασκον οἱ λαφυροπῶλαι, καὶ τῆσ μὲν ἐσθῆτοσ ἦσαν ὠνηταὶ πολλοί, τῶν δὲ σωμάτων λευκῶν καὶ ἁπαλῶν παντάπασι διὰ τὰσ σκιατραφίασ κατεγέλων ὡσ ἀχρήστων καὶ μηδενὸσ ἀξίων· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 131)

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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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