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ἐπιγρα^φ-ή , ἡ,
A.inscription, στηλῶν on stones, Th.2.43, cf. Arist.Mir.843b17, J.AJ15.8.1; on a vase, BCH6.6 (Delos, ii B.C.); on statues, Plb.5.9.3.
2.. title of a work, Id.3.9.3, Luc.Hist.Conscr.30, etc.
3.. name of a ship, OGI447 (i B.C.).
4.. ascription of a deed to its author, credit or honour of a thing, “τὴν ἐ. τινος λαβεῖν” Plb.1.31.4, cf. PSI4.424.9 (iii B.C.); “ἀπενέγκασθαι” D.S.16.50.cf.Jul.Caes.322d.
5.. insertion, interlineation in a document, PLond.2.178.13 ii A.D.), PRyl.316.2 (pl., ii A.D.).
II.. description of parties in pleadings,Is.4.2.
2.. registration of property for taxation, in pl., Isoc.17.41 codd. (v. foreg.).
3.. impost, tax, PSI5.510.11 (iii B.C.); assessment, POxy.1445.8(ii A.D.), etc.
4.. requisition, “ὑποζυγίων” BCH46.309（Teos).
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 (9):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.50
    • Isaeus, Nicostratus, 2
    • Isocrates, Trapeziticus, 41
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 15.8.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.31.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.9.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.9.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.43
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 30
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