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σπουδαρχία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: spoudarchia

Principal Part: σπουδαρχία

Structure: σπουδαρχι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from σπουδάρχης

Sense

  1. canvassing for office

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

  • οἶμαι οὖν πολὺ ἂν τὴν κατασκευήν μοι λαμπροτέραν φανῆναι εἰ ἀνδράσιν ἐκκεκαθαρμένοις τὰς ψυχὰς ὥσπερ ὑμῖν ὁ ἀνδρὼν κεκοσμημένος εἰή μᾶλλον ἢ εἰ στρατηγοῖς καὶ ἱππάρχοις καὶ σπουδαρχίαις. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 1 5:3)
  • ὁ δὲ μέγας μὲν ὢν ἐφ ἑαυτοῦ, μεγάλῃ δ ἀεὶ τῇ παρὰ τοῦ δήμου χάριτι καὶ σπουδῇ κεχρημένος, ὡς οὖν ἐμβάλλοντος εἰς ἀγορὰν τοῦ Σκηπίωνος κατεῖδε παρὰ πλευρὰν ὁ Ἄππιος ἀνθρώπους ἀγεννεῖς καὶ δεδουλευκότας, ἀγοραίους δὲ καὶ δυναμένους ὄχλον συναγαγεῖν καὶ σπουδαρχίᾳ καὶ κραυγῇ πάντα πράγματα βιάσασθαι, μέγα βοήσας: (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 38 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. canvassing for office

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

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