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ὑπέρθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρθεσις ὑπέρθεσεως

Structure: ὑπερθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(perti/qhmi

Sense

  1. postponement

Declension

Third 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

  • εἰ δὲ τοῖσ Ταριχεώταισ καὶ τοῖσ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ξένοισ ἐπιτρέψαιμι τὴν πόλιν διαρπάζειν, ἑώρων οὐχ ἱκανοὺσ ἐσομένουσ, τὴν ἐμὴν ὑπέρθεσιν ἑώρων μακροτάτην· (Flavius Josephus, 194:1)
  • "μακρὰν γὰρ οὐκ αἰτεῖται Γέλλιοσ ὑπέρθεσιν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 26 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ κόσμοσ ἦν περὶ μὲν τὰσ χεῖρασ δακτυλίων πλῆθοσ ἐνδεδεμένων λίθοισ πολυτελέσι καὶ διηλλαγμένοισ τοῖσ χρώμασι, περὶ δὲ τὴν κεφαλὴν χρυσῶν ἀστερίσκων οὐκ ὀλίγοσ ἀριθμὸσ παντοδαποῖσ λίθοισ διειλημμένων, περὶ δὲ τὸν τράχηλον ὁρ́μων πλῆθοσ, τῶν μὲν ἐλασσόνων, τῶν δ’ ἐκ τοῦ κατ’ ὀλίγον ἀεὶ καθ’ ὑπέρθεσιν μειζόνων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 34 4:2)
  • δεισιδαίμονεσ γὰρ οἱ μέλλοντεσ ἐγχειρεῖν ταῖσ παρανόμοισ καὶ μεγάλαισ πράξεσι καὶ τὸ μέλλειν ἀεὶ τοῦ πράττειν καὶ τὴν ὑπέρθεσιν τῆσ συντελείασ προκρίνουσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 43 1:3)
  • οὐ γὰρ περὶ κατασκευὴν ὅπλων ἢ τειχῶν οὐδὲ περὶ συλλογὴν ἐπικούρων Ιοὐδαίουσ ἀσχολεῖσθαι, καὶ τὴν ὑπέρθεσιν ἔσεσθαι κατὰ τῶν διδόντων, ἀλλ’ ἐμφυλίῳ πολέμῳ καὶ διχονοίᾳ τραχηλιζομένουσ καθ’ ἡμέραν οἰκτρότερα πάσχειν ὧν ἂν ἐπελθόντεσ αὐτοὶ διαθεῖεν αὐτοὺσ ἁλόντασ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 424:1)

Synonyms

  1. postponement

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

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