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σπουδαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπουδαρχία

Structure: σπουδαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from spouda/rxhs

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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