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ζεῦξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζεῦξις ζεῦξεως

Structure: ζευξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: zeu/gnumi

Sense

  1. a yoking or manner of yoking
  2. a joining

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

  • οὐ κατὰ λόγων δύναμιν, καὶ μάλιστά γε τῶν ἐμῶν, ἐμφανίσαι θαυμασίαν οὕτωσ εἰκόνα, πρὸσ ἣν μόλισ ἂν ἢ Ἀπελλῆσ ἢ Ζεῦξισ ἢ Παρράσιοσ ἱκανοὶ ἔδοξαν, ἢ εἴ τισ Φειδίασ ἢ Ἀλκαμένησ ἐγὼ δὲ λυμανοῦμαι τὸ ἀρχέτυπον ἀσθενείᾳ τῆσ τέχνησ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 3:4)
  • ὁ Ζεῦξισ ἐκεῖνοσ ἄριστοσ γραφέων γενόμενοσ τὰ δημώδη καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγραφεν, ἢ ὅσα πάνυ ὀλίγα, ἡρ́ωασ ἢ θεοὺσ ἢ πολέμουσ, ἀεὶ δὲ καινοποιεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο καὶ τι ἀλλόκοτον ἂν καὶ ξένον ἐπινοήσασ ἐπ̓ ἐκείνῳ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῆσ τέχνησ ἐπεδείκνυτο· (Lucian, Zeuxis 5:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τολμήμασι καὶ θήλειαν Ἱπποκένταυρον ὁ Ζεῦξισ ἐποίησεν, ἀνατρέφουσάν γε προσέτι παιδίω Ἱπποκενταύρω διδύμω κομιδῇ νηπίω. (Lucian, Zeuxis 6:1)
  • ταῦτα δ̓ οὖν ἐπιδειξάμενοσ ὁ Ζεῦξισ αὐτὸσ μὲν ᾤετο ἐκπλήξειν τοὺσ ὁρῶντασ ἐπὶ τῇ τέχνῃ, οἱ δὲ αὐτίκα μὲν ἐβόων. (Lucian, Zeuxis 13:1)
  • ὥστε ὁ Ζεῦξισ συνεὶσ ὅτι αὐτοὺσ ἀσχολεῖ ἡ ὑπόθεσισ καινὴ οὖσα καὶ ἀπάγει τῆσ τέχνησ, ὡσ ἐν παρέργῳ τίθεσθαι τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῶν πραγμάτων, Ἄγε δή, ἔφη, ὦ Μικκίων, πρὸσ τὸν μαθητήν, περίβαλε ἤδη τὴν εἰκόνα καὶ ἀράμενοι ἀποκομίζετε οἴκαδε· (Lucian, Zeuxis 13:4)

Synonyms

  1. a joining

Related

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

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