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ἐπίθετ-ος , ον,
A.additional, “φυλαί” D.H.3.71; esp. at Athens, opp. πάτριος, relatively modern, “ἑορταί” Isoc.7.29; τὰ ἐ., opp. τὰ πάτρια, the acquired powers of the Areopagus, Lys.Fr.178 S., cf. Arist.Ath.25.2, 3.3; so ἐ. ἐξουσία usurped authority, Plu.Cleom.10: generally, adventitious, τὰ μὲν τῶν “νόμων ἐπίθετα, τὰ δὲ τῆς φύσεως ἀναγκαῖα” Antipho Soph.Oxy.1364.25; ἐπιθυμίαι, opp. κοιναί, Arist.EN1118b9; “ἐ. τῇ φύσει κακά” Men.534.13.
2.. fictitious, Thphr.HP9.8.8; opp. ἀληθινός, D.H.4.70, cf. 68.
3.. of letters, entrusted for conveyance, Lys.Fr.116S.
II.. ἐ. [ὄνομα] adjectival, D.T.636.9, cf. Plu.Cor.11.
III.. Subst. ἐπίθετον , τό, epithet, Arist.Rh.1406a19, D.H.Comp.5, A.D.Synt.41.15; adjective, ib.81.24 (so Adv. -τως, λέγειν indicate by epithets, Str.1.2.29, al.).
2.. = ἐπίθημα 5, Aret.CA1.1.
3.. ἐπίθετος, ὁ, a throw of the dice, Eub.57.4.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 25.2
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 3.3
    • Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 29
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.2.29
    • Strabo, Geography, 5
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.1
    • Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, 11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.71
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.70
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 68
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 5
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