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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

  • ’πότε παυσόμεθα ὑπὸ τῶν λῃτουργιῶν καὶ τῶν τριηραρχιῶν ἀπολλύμενοι; (Theophrastus, Characters, 6:1)
  • τῶν γὰρ εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν τῆσ πόλεωσ εἰσφορῶν καὶ τριηραρχιῶν ὀρθῶσ καὶ δικαίωσ οὐδείσ ἐστ’ ἀτελὴσ ἐκ τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων, οὐδ’ οὓσ οὗτοσ ἔγραψε, τοὺσ ἀφ’ Ἁρμοδίου καὶ Ἀριστογείτονοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 26:5)
  • ἴστε γὰρ δήπου τοῦθ’ ὅτι τῶν τριηραρχιῶν οὐδείσ ἐστ’ ἀτελὴσ οὐδὲ τῶν εἰσφορῶν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 36:2)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ὅτι τῶν τριηραρχιῶν οὐδείσ ἐστ’ ἀτελήσ, οἶμαι μὲν ὑμᾶσ εἰδέναι πάντασ, ὅμωσ δὲ καὶ τὸν νόμον ὑμῖν αὐτὸν ἀναγνώσεται. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 37:2)
  • λαβὲ τὸν περὶ τῶν τριηραρχιῶν νόμον καὶ λέγε τοῦτ’ αὐτό. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 37:3)

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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