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τριηραρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριηραρχία

Structure: τριηραρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from trihrarxe/w

Sense

  1. the command of a trireme
  2. the fitting out of a trireme for the public service, a trierarchy

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

  • καὶ ἐλθόντεσ οἴκαδε εὑρ́ομεν Διογείτονα τέτταρασ καὶ εἴκοσι μνᾶσ ἐκείνῳ συμβεβλημένον εἰσ τὴν τριηραρχίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 27 4:5)
  • δεύτεροσ δὲ Λυσιμάχου αὐτὸν προκαλεσαμένου περὶ τριηραρχίασ εἰσ ἀντίδοσιν ἡττηθεὶσ δὲ τὴν τριηραρχίαν ὑπέστη. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 47:1)
  • ἐπειδὰν γάρ τισ μισθωσάμενοσ τριηραρχίαν ἐκπλεύσῃ, πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ ἄγει καὶ φέρει, καὶ τὰσ μὲν ὠφελίασ ἰδίᾳ καρποῦται, τὰσ δὲ δίκασ τούτων ὁ τυχὼν δίδωσιν ὑμῶν, καὶ μόνοισ ὑμῖν οὐδαμόσε ἔστιν ἄνευ κηρυκείου βαδίσαι διὰ τὰσ ὑπὸ τούτων ἀνδροληψίασ καὶ σύλασ κατεσκευασμένασ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 17:2)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τοσούτου δέω τοῦτο συγχωρεῖν ὅσουπερ καὶ μεμισθωκέναι τὴν τριηραρχίαν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 23:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ Ἀφαρεὺσ ἐξήλεγχεν αὐτὸν τιμὴν λογισάμενον αὑτῷ τῶν σκευῶν καὶ λαβόντα παρ’ αὑτοῦ, ὅτε παρελάμβανεν τὴν τριηραρχίαν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 42:1)

Synonyms

  1. the command of a trireme

  2. the fitting out of a trireme for the public service

Related

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

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