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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

  • πρὸσ Μελήσανδρον ὑπὲρ τῆσ τριηραρχίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, , chapter 13 1:3)
  • οὗτοσ δὲ πάπποσ ὢν παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ τριηραρχίασ παρὰ τῶν θυγατριδῶν τὸ ἥμισυ πράττεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 27 3:4)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ μόλισ παρ’ αὐτοῦ παρέλαβον τὰ γράμματα, μάρτυρασ ἔχων ἠρώτων Ἀριστόδικον τὸν ἀδελφὸν τὸν Ἀλέξιδοσ αὐτὸσ γὰρ ἐτύγχανε τετελευτηκώσ, εἰ ὁ λόγοσ αὐτῷ εἰή τῆσ τριηραρχίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 27 4:3)
  • οἱ γὰρ εὔποροι δεδιότεσ μὴ δοκῶσι τὰσ λειτουργίασ καὶ τριηραρχίασ ἀποδιδράσκειν, παρὰ γνώμην ἡσύχαζον· (Plutarch, , chapter 12 2:3)
  • ἔχων, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ τριηραρχίασ εἰπεῖν καὶ χορηγίασ καὶ χρημάτων εἰσφορὰσ καὶ λύσεισ αἰχμαλώτων καὶ τοιαύτασ ἄλλασ φιλανθρωπίασ, οὐδὲν ἂν τούτων εἴποιμι, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τῶν τοιούτων πολιτευμάτων οὐδὲν πολιτεύομαι, ἀλλὰ δυνάμενοσ ἂν ἴσωσ, ὥσπερ καὶ ἕτεροι, καὶ κατηγορεῖν καὶ χαρίζεσθαι καὶ δημεύειν καὶ τἄλλ’ ἃ ποιοῦσιν οὗτοι ποιεῖν, οὐδ’ ἐφ’ ἓν τούτων πώποτ’ ἐμαυτὸν ἔταξα, οὐδὲ προήχθην οὔθ’ ὑπὸ κέρδουσ οὔθ’ ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίασ, ἀλλὰ διαμένω λέγων ἐξ ὧν ἐγὼ μὲν πολλῶν ἐλάττων εἰμὶ παρ’ ὑμῖν, ὑμεῖσ δ’, εἰ πείσεσθέ μοι, μείζουσ ἂν εἰήτε· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 82:1)

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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