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χορηγία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χορηγία

Structure: χορηγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the office of a xorhgo/s at Athens, the defraying of the cost of the public choruses
  2. means for providing, abundance of means, fortune
  3. supplies for war

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

  • ἐπιδόσεισ γὰρ καὶ χορηγίαι καὶ φιλοτιμήματα πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν ὑπερβολὴν μὴ ἀπολείποντα καὶ δόξα προγόνων καὶ λόγου δύναμισ καὶ σώματοσ εὐπρέπεια καὶ ῥώμη μετ’ ἐμπειρίασ τῶν πολεμικῶν καὶ ἀλκῆσ πάντα τἆλλα συγχωρεῖν ἐποίει καὶ φέρειν μετρίωσ τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ, ἀεὶ τὰ πρᾳότατα τῶν ὀνομάτων τοῖσ ἁμαρτήμασι τιθεμένουσ, παιδιὰσ καὶ φιλοτιμίασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 16 3:1)
  • ἐροῦσ’ ὅτι ταῦθ’ ἱερῶν ἐστιν ἅπαντα τἀναλώματα αἱ χορηγίαι καὶ αἱ γυμνασιαρχίαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 166:2)
  • τοιαύτησ δ’ οὔσησ τῆσ περὶ αὐτὸν ὁρμῆσ οἱ συνόντεσ φίλοι θεωροῦντεσ ὅτι μετ’ αὐτῶν μέν εἰσι παντελῶσ ὀλίγοι συστρατεύοντεσ, τοῖσ δὲ πολεμίοισ ἐφ’ οὓσ προάγουσι καὶ δυνάμεισ ὑπάρχουσιν ἕτοιμοι μεγάλαι καὶ χορηγίαι λαμπραὶ καὶ συμμάχων πλῆθοσ, οὐ μετρίωσ ἠθύμουν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 90 2:1)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ δὴ φιλεῖ γίνεσθαι καὶ περὶ τὰ κοινὰ πράγματα καὶ περὶ τοὺσ κατ’ ἰδίαν βίουσ, ὅταν ἐλλίπωσιν αἱ χορηγίαι τὰσ ἑκάστων ἐπιβολάσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 93 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. means for providing

  2. supplies for war

Related

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

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