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ἐπείσ-ακτος , ον,
A.brought in from outside, opp. “οἰκεῖος, [Ἔρως] διὰ τῶν ὀμμάτων” Pl.Cra.420b; alien, opp. αὐτόχθων, E.Ion 590; “σῖτος” D.18.87, 20.31; “τροφή” Hdn.8.5.4, cf. Ostr.757.4 (ii B.C.); “ἡδονή” Arist.EN 1169b26; “κακόν” Com.Adesp.110.5; “γάμοι” J.AJ8.7.5; “βασιλεύς” Hdn. 1.5.5; θύραθεν ἐ., opp. φύσει ὑπάρχον, Arist.PA659b19; “εἰ ἐπείσακτον τὸ τῆς ἀρετῆς ἦν, καὶ μηδὲν αὐτοῦ φύσει ἡμῖν μετῆν” Muson.Fr.2p.6H.: fem. [ἐπει] σάνκτην (sic) is prob. l. in SIG1231 (Nicomedia).
2. capable of import, Aristid.Or.36(48).17,18.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 87
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 31
    • Euripides, Ion, 590
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 8.7.5
    • Plato, Cratylus, 420b
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