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ὑπόσχεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόσχεσις ὑπόσχεσεως

Structure: ὑποσχεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(pisxne/omai

Sense

  1. an undertaking, engagement, promise, a promise, their, its
  2. a profession

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

  • τοὺσ δ’ Ἀργείουσ πυθομένουσ καὶ χαλεπαίνοντασ πεῖσαι χρημάτων ὑποσχέσει Τυρρηνοὺσ λῃστρικῷ τῷ βίῳ χρωμένουσ ἁρπάσαι τὸ βρέτασ, πεπεισμένουσ αὐτοὺσ ὡσ, εἰ τοῦτο γένοιτο, πάντωσ τι κακὸν πρὸσ τῶν τὴν Σάμον κατοικούντων ἡ Ἀδμήτη πείσεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 12 3:1)
  • ἓν δ’ ὑμῖν ἐκεῖν’ ὑπισχνοῦμαι, καί μου μηδεὶσ ἀχθεσθῇ τῇ ὑποσχέσει· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 202:2)
  • πολλοὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ παντοδαποὶ ὑπό τ’ αὐτῶν ἐκείνων ἐρρήθησαν ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ λόγοι καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων πρεσβυτέρων, τῶν μὲν οἰομένων δεῖν θεραπεύειν τὸν δῆμον ἁπάσῃ εὐπροσηγορίᾳ λόγων καὶ ὑποσχέσει ἔργων καὶ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ αὐτοῦ μετριωτέρουσ παρασκευάζειν, τιθέντασ εἰσ μέσον τὰ πράγματα καὶ μετὰ σφῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινῇ συμφέροντοσ παρακαλοῦντασ σκοπεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 15 1:2)
  • ἔλεγε δὲ ταῦθ’ ὡσ Καίσαρι μὲν αὐτίκα δοθησομένων διαδόχων, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐσόμενοσ ἐν ὑποσχέσει μόνῃ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 4 5:7)
  • καταπλαγεὶσ δὲ τὴν ἔφοδον Ἀριστόβουλοσ ἱκέτησ ἀπαντᾷ χρημάτων τε ὑποσχέσει καὶ τῷ μετὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐπιτρέπειν καὶ ἑαυτὸν χαλεπαίνοντα καταστέλλει τὸν Πομπήιον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 196:2)

Synonyms

  1. a profession

Related

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

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