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{
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"2": "επί"
},
"expansion": "Greek: επί (epí)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Greek: επί (epí)"
}
],
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"1": "grc",
"2": "grk-pro",
"3": "*epí"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *epí",
"name": "inh"
},
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"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁epi"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "अपि",
"tr": "ápi"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit अपि (ápi)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ae",
"2": "𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌 (aⁱpi)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "peo",
"2": "𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹",
"tr": "apiy"
},
"expansion": "Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹 (apiy)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xcl",
"2": "եւ"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian եւ (ew)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ob"
},
"expansion": "Latin ob",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "bī"
},
"expansion": "Old English bī",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "by"
},
"expansion": "English by",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Hellenic *epí, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.\nCognate with Sanskrit अपि (ápi), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌 (aⁱpi), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹 (apiy), Old Armenian եւ (ew), Latin ob, and Old English bī (English by).\nThe genitive is an innovated Greek associative. The dative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.",
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{
"form": "ἐπῐ́",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "epí",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"romanization"
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},
"expansion": "ἐπῐ́ • (epí) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)",
"name": "grc-preposition"
}
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"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "prep",
"senses": [
{
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"Lemmas"
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{
"english": "He sits down on a throne.",
"roman": "kathézetai epì thrónou.",
"text": "καθέζεται ἐπὶ θρόνου.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The arrows rattled on the shoulders of the angry god as he moved.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.46",
"roman": "éklanxan d’ ár’ oïstoì ep’ ṓmōn khōoménoio",
"text": "ἔκλαγξαν δ’ ἄρ’ ὀϊστοὶ ἐπ’ ὤμων χωομένοιο"
},
{
"english": "Come, let us flee on our chariot.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.356",
"roman": "all’ áge dḕ pheúgōmen eph’ híppōn",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγε δὴ φεύγωμεν ἐφ’ ἵππων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on, upon (on the upper surface of)"
],
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"links": [
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"on",
"on"
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"upon",
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"accusative",
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"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "But their spears were driven into the ground erect on their spikes.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.153",
"roman": "énkhea dé sphin / órth’ epì saurōtêros elḗlato",
"text": "ἔγχεα δέ σφιν / ὄρθ’ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆρος ἐλήλατο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on (supported by)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-QanyEVoo",
"links": [
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"examples": [
{
"english": "He died on the foreign ground that he desired.",
"ref": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1705–1706",
"roman": "hâs ékhrēize gâs epì xénas / éthane",
"text": "ἇς ἔχρῃζε γᾶς ἐπὶ ξένας / ἔθανε"
},
{
"english": "He put his own daughter in a brothel.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121E.2",
"roman": "tḕn thugatéra tḕn heōutoû katísai ep’ oikḗmatos",
"text": "τὴν θυγατέρα τὴν ἑωυτοῦ κατίσαι ἐπ’ οἰκήματος"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in"
],
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[
"in",
"in"
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"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(mostly post-Homeric) in"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"post-Homeric",
"with-genitive"
]
},
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And there near these selfsame [springs] are broad washing-tanks, fair and wrought of stone.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.153",
"roman": "éntha d’ ep’ autáōn plunoì eurées engùs éasi / kaloì laḯneoi",
"text": "ἔνθα δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτάων πλυνοὶ εὐρέες ἐγγὺς ἔασι / καλοὶ λαΐνεοι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"at, near"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-wmaiEC6J",
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
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[
"near",
"near"
]
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "to ride at anchor",
"roman": "hormeîn ep’ ankúras",
"text": "ὁρμεῖν ἐπ’ ἀγκύρας",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"at (dependent upon)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-fHU7FnPX",
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
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"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(of ships) at (dependent upon)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of ships"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "They proceeded by themselves.",
"roman": "eph’ heautôn ekhṓroun",
"text": "ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἐχώρουν",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"by oneself"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-2Dwxz-Zt",
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[
"by",
"by"
]
],
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"[+genitive]",
"(with reflexive or personal pronoun) by oneself"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with reflexive or personal pronoun"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They formed a line four men deep.",
"roman": "etákhthēsan epì tettárōn",
"text": "ἐτάχθησαν ἐπὶ τεττάρων",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The Thebans, however, were massed not less than fifty shields deep.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.12",
"roman": "hoi dè Thēbaîoi ouk élatton ḕ epì pentḗkonta aspídōn sunestramménoi êsan",
"text": "οἱ δὲ Θηβαῖοι οὐκ ἔλαττον ἢ ἐπὶ πεντήκοντα ἀσπίδων συνεστραμμένοι ἦσαν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"deep"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-07XJ-hhV",
"links": [
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"deep",
"deep"
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"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(with numerals, of a body of soldiers) deep"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a body of soldiers",
"with numerals"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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"_dis": "3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Crimes of this kind are committed in secret, not before witnesses.",
"ref": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 3.8",
"roman": "ou gàr epì martúrōn allà kruptómena prássetai tà toiaûta",
"text": "οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ μαρτύρων ἀλλὰ κρυπτόμενα πράσσεται τὰ τοιαῦτα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"before (in the presence of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-eU~KUqcY",
"links": [
[
"before",
"before"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(with a person) before (in the presence of)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with a person"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "ἐπὶ τῶν πλουσίων […] αἰσθάνομαι\nepì tôn plousíōn […] aisthánomai\nIn the case of the rich, I can see that […]",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "And similarly in all other points, I find that human beings naturally differ from one another.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.9.3",
"roman": "horô d’ égōge kaì epì tôn állōn pántōn homoíōs kaì phúsei diaphérontas allḗlōn toùs anthrṓpous",
"text": "ὁρῶ δ’ ἔγωγε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων ὁμοίως καὶ φύσει διαφέροντας ἀλλήλων τοὺς ἀνθρώπους"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in the case of; on"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-83dF3ipK",
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
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},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "Haply it was made the turning-post of a race in the days of men of old, and now swift-footed goodly Achilles has appointed it his turning-post.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.332",
"roman": "tó ge nússa tétukto epì protérōn anthrṓpōn, / kaì nûn térmat’ éthēke podárkēs dîos Akhilleús",
"text": "τό γε νύσσα τέτυκτο ἐπὶ προτέρων ἀνθρώπων, / καὶ νῦν τέρματ’ ἔθηκε ποδάρκης δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in the time of"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-ueGBALuE",
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
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],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the [men] in power",
"roman": "oi épì tôn pragmátōn",
"text": "οἰ έπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But Dercyllus, the Athenian general in command of the district, made an attempt to arrest him.",
"ref": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Phocion 32.3",
"roman": "Derkúllou dè toû epì tês khṓras stratēgoû sullabeîn autòn epikheirḗsantos",
"text": "Δερκύλλου δὲ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγοῦ συλλαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπιχειρήσαντος"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-ceOmKSOA1",
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[
"in",
"in"
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"qualifier": "power",
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(of authority, power, etc.) in"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of authority"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"usually",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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"_dis": "3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
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}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And not only on that, but on every [occasion] he has shown a deliberate intention to insult me.",
"ref": "361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 38",
"roman": "kaì ouk epì toútou mónon, all’ epì pántōn phaínetai proēirēménos m’ hubrízein",
"text": "καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτου μόνον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πάντων φαίνεται προῃρημένος μ’ ὑβρίζειν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on (an occasion)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-r5R4VVoG",
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
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"dative",
"with-genitive"
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},
{
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"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He sits down on a throne.",
"roman": "kathézetai epì thrónōi.",
"text": "καθέζεται ἐπὶ θρόνῳ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But come now, enter in, and sit thee upon this chair.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.354",
"roman": "all’ áge nûn eíselthe kaì hézeo tôid’ epì díphrōi",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγε νῦν εἴσελθε καὶ ἕζεο τῷδ’ ἐπὶ δίφρῳ"
},
{
"english": "This device his shield bore upon its iron back: an earth-born giant carrying on his shoulders a whole city which he had wrenched from its base.",
"ref": "408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1131",
"roman": "sidēronṓtois d’ aspídos túpois epên / gígas ep’ ṓmois gēgenḕs hólēn pólin / phérōn mokhloîsin exanaspásas báthrōn",
"text": "σιδηρονώτοις δ’ ἀσπίδος τύποις ἐπῆν / γίγας ἐπ’ ὤμοις γηγενὴς ὅλην πόλιν / φέρων μοχλοῖσιν ἐξανασπάσας βάθρων"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"on, upon"
],
"head_nr": 1,
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"on"
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[
"upon",
"upon"
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},
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"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
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}
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"examples": [
{
"english": "And after overcoming them as well, they left four thousand tenant farmers on the lands of the horse-breeders.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.77.2",
"roman": "nikḗsantes dè kaì toútous tetrakiskhilíous klēroúkhous epì tôn hippobotéōn têi khṓrēi leípousi",
"text": "νικήσαντες δὲ καὶ τούτους τετρακισχιλίους κληρούχους ἐπὶ τῶν ἱπποβοτέων τῇ χώρῃ λείπουσι"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"in"
],
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[
"in",
"in"
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"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
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},
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"name": "Ancient Greek prepositions",
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They are feeding by the rock of Corax and near the spring Arethusa.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.408",
"roman": "hai dè némontai / pàr Kórakos pétrēi epí te krḗnēi Arethoúsēi",
"text": "αἱ δὲ νέμονται / πὰρ Κόρακος πέτρῃ ἐπί τε κρήνῃ Ἀρεθούσῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"at, near"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-2TwKrLYx",
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"near",
"near"
]
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And he drew near and struck off his head over [the body of] Iphidamas.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.261",
"roman": "toîo d’ ep’ Iphidámanti kárē apékopse parastás",
"text": "τοῖο δ’ ἐπ’ Ἰφιδάμαντι κάρη ἀπέκοψε παραστάς"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"over"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-hgP2qop3",
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 7 2 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 6 5 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Such beautiful prises did the goddess set there in thy honor.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.91",
"roman": "hoî’ epì soì katéthēke theà perikallé’ áethla",
"text": "οἷ’ ἐπὶ σοὶ κατέθηκε θεὰ περικαλλέ’ ἄεθλα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in honor of"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-jwevKcvV",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians against Sparta.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.74.1",
"roman": "entheûten dè apikómenos es tḕn Arkadíēn neṓtera éprēsse prḗgmata, sunistàs toùs Arkádas epì tê Spártēi",
"text": "ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ ἀπικόμενος ἐς τὴν Ἀρκαδίην νεώτερα ἔπρησσε πρήγματα, συνιστὰς τοὺς Ἀρκάδας ἐπὶ τῆ Σπάρτῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"against"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-zdtAV3ip",
"links": [
[
"against",
"against"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 7 2 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 6 5 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 4 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 18 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 13 8 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Well, now, it seems that you at least do not have wits in addition to your beauty.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.454",
"roman": "ṑ pópoi, ouk ára soí g’ 'epì eídeï kaì phrénes êsan",
"text": "ὢ πόποι, οὐκ ἄρα σοί γ’ 'ἐπὶ εἴδεϊ καὶ φρένες ἦσαν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in addition to, over, besides"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-filZ-GXF",
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
],
[
"besides",
"besides"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "One pear after another ripens.",
"roman": "ónkhnē ep’ ónkhnēi gēráskei",
"text": "ὄγχνη ἐπ’ ὄγχνῃ γηράσκει",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Murder cries out on the Fury, which from those killed before brings one ruin after another.",
"ref": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 404",
"roman": "boâi gàr loigòs Erinùn / parà tôn próteron phthiménōn átēn / hetéran epágousan ep’ átēi",
"text": "βοᾷ γὰρ λοιγὸς Ἐρινὺν / παρὰ τῶν πρότερον φθιμένων ἄτην / ἑτέραν ἐπάγουσαν ἐπ’ ἄτῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"after"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-Vkj4pyXe",
"links": [
[
"after",
"after"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(with duplication of head noun) after"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with duplication of head noun"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And now we bear such weight with the foreigner that it is in our power to have you deprived of your lands and enslaved.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.29.2",
"roman": "nûn te parà tôi barbárōi tosoûto dunámetha hṓste ep’ hēmîn esti tês gês esterêsthai kaì pròs ēndrapodísthai huméas",
"text": "νῦν τε παρὰ τῷ βαρβάρῳ τοσοῦτο δυνάμεθα ὥστε ἐπ’ ἡμῖν ἐστι τῆς γῆς ἐστερῆσθαι καὶ πρὸς ἠνδραποδίσθαι ὑμέας"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in the power of"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-vlVPY0pk",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Judgements and awards given according to the law while the government was democratic, shall be valid.",
"ref": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 56",
"roman": "tàs díkas kaì tàs diaítas, hósai egénonto epì toîs nómois en dēmokratouménēi têi pólei, kurías eînai",
"text": "τὰς δίκας καὶ τὰς διαίτας, ὅσαι ἐγένοντο ἐπὶ τοῖς νόμοις ἐν δημοκρατουμένῃ τῇ πόλει, κυρίας εἶναι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"according to"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-fJyc0kLS",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And the earth will rot your bones as you lie in the land of Troy with your task unfinished.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.175",
"roman": "keiménou en Troíēi ateleutḗtōi epì érgōi",
"text": "σέο δ’ ὀστέα πύσει ἄρουρα\nκειμένου ἐν Τροίῃ ἀτελευτήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ\nséo d’ ostéa púsei ároura"
},
{
"english": "And in your prosperity, remember me in my death, and be fortunate evermore.",
"ref": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1554",
"roman": "kap’ eupraxíāi / mémnēsthé mou thanóntos eutukheîs aeí",
"text": "κἀπ’ εὐπραξίᾳ / μέμνησθέ μου θανόντος εὐτυχεῖς ἀεί"
},
{
"english": "He furnished them such amusement at dinner.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.12",
"roman": "tosaútas mèn autoîs euthumías pareîkhen epì tôi deípnōi",
"text": "τοσαύτας μὲν αὐτοῖς εὐθυμίας παρεῖχεν ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in, with"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-EiGAnlZF",
"links": [
[
"in",
"in"
],
[
"with",
"with"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(of conditions or circumstances) in, with"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of conditions or circumstances"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Surely at night we will guard our own selves.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.529",
"roman": "all’ ḗtoi epì nuktì phuláxomen hēméas autoús",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἤτοι ἐπὶ νυκτὶ φυλάξομεν ἡμέας αὐτούς"
},
{
"english": "But here may he, who on this day of his own will shrinks from fight, become the sport of dogs.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.234",
"roman": "all’ aûthi kunôn mélpēthra génoito, / hós tis ep’ ḗmati tôide hekṑn methíēisi mákhesthai",
"text": "ἀλλ’ αὖθι κυνῶν μέλπηθρα γένοιτο, / ὅς τις ἐπ’ ἤματι τῷδε ἑκὼν μεθίῃσι μάχεσθαι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"at, on"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-lwTNscUW",
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
"qualifier": "never in proper Attic",
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(of time, never in proper Attic) at, on"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of time"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Then, perceiving after the deed had been done that this was the meaning of the oracle […]",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.164.3",
"roman": "mathṑn dè ep’ exergasménoisi tò mantḗion eòn toûto",
"text": "μαθὼν δὲ ἐπ’ ἐξεργασμένοισι τὸ μαντήιον ἐὸν τοῦτο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"after"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-Vkj4pyXe1",
"links": [
[
"after",
"after"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(of time) after"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of time"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Many be the woes that shall yet be wrought because of her.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.585",
"roman": "ê t’ éti pollà teteúxetai álge’ ep’ autêi",
"text": "ἦ τ’ ἔτι πολλὰ τετεύξεται ἄλγε’ ἐπ’ αὐτῇ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"on account of, for"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-4h3iV51s",
"links": [
[
"on account of",
"on account of"
],
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"qualifier": "expressing a cause",
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(expressing a cause) on account of, for"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And their father was fordone with grievous old age, and begat no other son to leave in charge of his possessions.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.154",
"roman": "huiòn d’ ou téket’ állon epì kteátessi lipésthai",
"text": "ὃ δὲ τείρετο γήραϊ λυγρῷ,\nυἱὸν δ’ οὐ τέκετ’ ἄλλον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσι λιπέσθαι\nhò dè teíreto gḗraï lugrôi,"
},
{
"english": "Here at the fire lie goats' paunches, which we set there for supper.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.44",
"roman": "gastéres haíd’ aigôn kéat’ en purí, tàs epì dórpōi / katthémetha",
"text": "γαστέρες αἵδ’ αἰγῶν κέατ’ ἐν πυρί, τὰς ἐπὶ δόρπῳ / κατθέμεθα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"for"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-L0ETQ47Q",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"qualifier": "expressing a purpose",
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(expressing a purpose) for"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "When this offer was accepted by Pisistratus, who agreed on these terms [with Megacles], they devised a plan to bring Pisistratus back.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.60.3",
"roman": "endexaménou dè tòn lógon kaì homologḗsantos epì toútoisi Peisistrátou, mēkhanôntai dḕ epì têi katódōi prêgma",
"text": "ἐνδεξαμένου δὲ τὸν λόγον καὶ ὁμολογήσαντος ἐπὶ τούτοισι Πεισιστράτου, μηχανῶνται δὴ ἐπὶ τῇ κατόδῳ πρῆγμα"
},
{
"english": "They offered to make peace on the condition that the Athenians destroy the long walls and the walls of Piraeus.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica",
"roman": "all’ epoioûnto eirḗnēn eph’ hôi tá te makrà teíkhē kaì tòn Peiraiâ kathelóntas",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἐποιοῦντο εἰρήνην ἐφ’ ᾧ τά τε μακρὰ τείχη καὶ τὸν Πειραιᾶ καθελόντας"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"on"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-W6y5SxLG",
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(of a condition) on"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a condition"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Who is there now that would promise me this deed and bring it to pass for a great gift?",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.304",
"roman": "tís kén moi tóde érgon huposkhómenos teléseie / dṓrōi épi megálōi",
"text": "τίς κέν μοι τόδε ἔργον ὑποσχόμενος τελέσειε / δώρῳ ἔπι μεγάλῳ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"for (i.e. in exchange for)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-aNwKX7kc",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Now the term employed for the hostility of the friendly is faction, and for that of the alien is war.",
"ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, R 470b",
"roman": "epì mèn oûn têi toû oikeíou ékhthrāi stásis kéklētai, epì dè têi toû allotríou pólemos",
"text": "ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τῇ τοῦ οἰκείου ἔχθρᾳ στάσις κέκληται, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου πόλεμος"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"for"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-L0ETQ47Q1",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(of a name) for"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a name"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Dative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Blameless Odysseus, who set me in charge of his cattle […]",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.209",
"roman": "Odusêos amúmonos, hós m’ epì bousìn / heîs’ éti tutthòn eónta",
"text": "Ὀδυσῆος ἀμύμονος, ὅς μ’ ἐπὶ βουσὶν / εἷσ’ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in charge of"
],
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"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-OU3-13Sx",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He got up onto the horse.",
"roman": "anébainen epì tòn híppon",
"text": "ἀνέβαινεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But she went onto the great wall of Ilios.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.386",
"roman": "all’ epì púrgon ébē mégan Ilíou",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πύργον ἔβη μέγαν Ἰλίου"
},
{
"english": "They are accustomed to go up onto the highest peaks of the mountains to offer sacrifices to Zeus.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.131.2",
"roman": "hoì dè nomízousi Diì mèn epì tà hupsēlótata tôn oréōn anabaínontes thusías érdein",
"text": "οἳ δὲ νομίζουσι Διὶ μὲν ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλότατα τῶν ὀρέων ἀναβαίνοντες θυσίας ἔρδειν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"onto (the upper surface of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-DhWS0Fcb",
"links": [
[
"onto",
"onto"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "For he had come to the swift ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.12",
"roman": "hò gàr êlthe thoàs epì nêas Akhaiôn lusómenós te thúgatra",
"text": "ὃ γὰρ ἦλθε θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν λυσόμενός τε θύγατρα"
},
{
"english": "Now when they were come to the beautiful palace of Alexander, the handmaids turned forthwith to their tasks.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.421",
"roman": "haì d’ hót’ Alexándroio dómon perikallé’ híkonto, amphípoloi mèn épeita thoôs epì érga tráponto",
"text": "αἳ δ’ ὅτ’ Ἀλεξάνδροιο δόμον περικαλλέ’ ἵκοντο, ἀμφίπολοι μὲν ἔπειτα θοῶς ἐπὶ ἔργα τράποντο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"to"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-jKyiUQa1",
"links": [
[
"to",
"to"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Beyond this wild beasts' haunt runs a ridge of sand that stretches from Thebes of Egypt up to the Pillars of Heracles.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.181.1",
"roman": "hupèr dè tês thēriṓdeos ophrúē psámmēs katḗkei parateínousa apò Thēbéōn tôn Aiguptiéōn ep’ Hērakléas stḗlas",
"text": "ὑπὲρ δὲ τῆς θηριώδεος ὀφρύη ψάμμης κατήκει παρατείνουσα ἀπὸ Θηβέων τῶν Αἰγυπτιέων ἐπ’ Ἡρακλέας στήλας"
},
{
"english": "We have not yet come to the end of all our trials.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.248",
"roman": "ou gár pō pántōn epì peírat’ aéthlōn / ḗlthomen",
"text": "οὐ γάρ πω πάντων ἐπὶ πείρατ’ ἀέθλων / ἤλθομεν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"up to, as far as"
],
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake.",
"ref": "70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 10:18",
"roman": "kaì epì hēgemónas dè kaì basileîs akhthḗsesthe héneken emoû",
"text": "καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνας δὲ καὶ βασιλεῖς ἀχθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"to before, into the presence of"
],
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[
"before",
"before"
]
],
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"[+accusative]",
"(with a person) to before, into the presence of"
],
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"with a person"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The Thebans formed twenty-five shields deep.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93",
"roman": "ep’ aspídas dè pénte mèn kaì eíkosi Thēbaîoi etáxanto",
"text": "ἐπ’ ἀσπίδας δὲ πέντε μὲν καὶ εἴκοσι Θηβαῖοι ἐτάξαντο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"deep"
],
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[
"deep",
"deep"
]
],
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"[+accusative]",
"(of an army) deep"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of an army"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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{
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "The Chalcidians however attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.74",
"roman": "Khalkidées te epì tà hétera esínonto epióntes khṓrous tês Attikês",
"text": "Χαλκιδέες τε ἐπὶ τὰ ἕτερα ἐσίνοντο ἐπιόντες χώρους τῆς Ἀττικῆς"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"to or into a certain side"
],
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"links": [
[
"to",
"to"
],
[
"into",
"into"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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{
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"Lemmas"
],
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}
],
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{
"english": "But Hector marked them across the ranks, and rushed against them shouting aloud.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.590",
"roman": "toùs d’ Héktōr enóēse katà stíkhas, ôrto d’ ep’ autoùs / keklḗgōn",
"text": "τοὺς δ’ Ἕκτωρ ἐνόησε κατὰ στίχας, ὦρτο δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς / κεκλήγων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"against"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-JLpGm4Rg",
"links": [
[
"against",
"against"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Is it thus indeed that the Argives are to flee their dear native land over the broad back of the sea?",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.159",
"roman": "hoútō dḕ oîkon dè phílēn es patrída gaîan / Argeîoi pheúxontai ep’ euréa nôta thalássēs",
"text": "οὕτω δὴ οἶκον δὲ φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν / Ἀργεῖοι φεύξονται ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"over"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-bSSFh~r-",
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Endure, my friends, and abide for a time.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.299",
"roman": "tlête phíloi, kaì meínat’ epì khrónon",
"text": "τλῆτε φίλοι, καὶ μείνατ’ ἐπὶ χρόνον"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"for, during"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-a5tuoqW4",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
],
[
"during",
"during"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"(of time) for, during"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of time"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "So there among the leaves I slept, my heart sore stricken, the whole night through, until the morning.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.288",
"roman": "éntha mèn en phúlloisi phílon tetiēménos êtor / heûdon pannúkhios kaì ep’ ēô",
"text": "ἔνθα μὲν ἐν φύλλοισι φίλον τετιημένος ἦτορ / εὗδον παννύχιος καὶ ἐπ’ ἠῶ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"up to, until"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-pvsZSrFn",
"links": [
[
"up to",
"up to"
],
[
"until",
"until"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"(of time) up to, until"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of time"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
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"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
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}
],
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{
"english": "Come now, let one go to the plain for a heifer.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.421",
"roman": "all’ ág’ ho mèn pedíond’ epì boûn, ítō",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγ’ ὁ μὲν πεδίονδ’ ἐπὶ βοῦν, ἴτω"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"for (the purpose of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-WokkUANu",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
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"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
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},
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 7 2 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 6 5 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Our hands are clean with respect to this girl.",
"ref": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 889",
"roman": "hēmeîs gàr hagnoì toupì tḗnde tḕn kórēn",
"text": "ἡμεῖς γὰρ ἁγνοὶ τοὐπὶ τήνδε τὴν κόρην"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"for (with respect to)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-pwkcCtVv",
"links": [
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [
"Accusative prepositions",
"Prepositions",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He also instructed each one of the newly-mounted officers to appoint some other peer to take his place of command over the infantry of the peers.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.58",
"roman": "epì dè toùs pezoùs tôn homotímōn anth’ hautoû hékaston kathistánai állon árkhonta tôn homotímōn",
"text": "ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς πεζοὺς τῶν ὁμοτίμων ἀνθ’ αὑτοῦ ἕκαστον καθιστάναι ἄλλον ἄρχοντα τῶν ὁμοτίμων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"over (in command of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-Ht7QcLIa",
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "But the liers-in-wait, when they saw these coming on, rushed forth against them and speedily cut off the herds of cattle and fair flocks of white-fleeced sheep, and slew the herdsmen as well.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.529",
"roman": "hoì mèn tà proïdóntes epédramon, ôka d’ épeita / támnont’ amphì boôn agélas kaì pṓea kalà / argennéōn oiôn, kteînon d’ epì mēlobotêras",
"text": "οἳ μὲν τὰ προϊδόντες ἐπέδραμον, ὦκα δ’ ἔπειτα / τάμνοντ’ ἀμφὶ βοῶν ἀγέλας καὶ πώεα καλὰ / ἀργεννέων οἰῶν, κτεῖνον δ’ ἐπὶ μηλοβοτῆρας"
}
],
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"as well, besides (often with δέ (dé))"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"id": "en-ἐπί-grc-prep-pM7kEGYZ",
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[
"as well",
"as well"
],
[
"besides",
"besides"
],
[
"δέ",
"δέ#Ancient Greek"
]
],
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"(without a noun) as well, besides (often with δέ (dé))"
],
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"without a noun"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/e.pí/"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/e.pí/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "ep’",
"tags": [
"apocopic"
],
"word": "ἐπ’"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "before a smooth breathing"
},
{
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"english": "stress-shifted",
"roman": "épi",
"word": "ἔπι"
},
{
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"roman": "ép’",
"tags": [
"apocopic",
"stressed"
],
"word": "ἔπ’"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "et",
"word": "ἐτ — Thessalian"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "before τ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "eph’",
"tags": [
"apocopic"
],
"word": "ἐφ’"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "before a rough breathing"
}
],
"word": "ἐπί"
}
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"Ancient Greek accusative prepositions",
"Ancient Greek dative prepositions",
"Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"Ancient Greek genitive prepositions",
"Ancient Greek lemmas",
"Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
"Ancient Greek prepositions",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
"Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
"Old Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "el",
"2": "επί"
},
"expansion": "Greek: επί (epí)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Greek: επί (epí)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "grk-pro",
"3": "*epí"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *epí",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₁epi"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "अपि",
"tr": "ápi"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit अपि (ápi)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ae",
"2": "𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌 (aⁱpi)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "peo",
"2": "𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹",
"tr": "apiy"
},
"expansion": "Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹 (apiy)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "xcl",
"2": "եւ"
},
"expansion": "Old Armenian եւ (ew)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ob"
},
"expansion": "Latin ob",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "bī"
},
"expansion": "Old English bī",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "by"
},
"expansion": "English by",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Hellenic *epí, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.\nCognate with Sanskrit अपि (ápi), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬞𐬌 (aⁱpi), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎡𐎹 (apiy), Old Armenian եւ (ew), Latin ob, and Old English bī (English by).\nThe genitive is an innovated Greek associative. The dative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ἐπῐ́",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "epí",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gen",
"2": "dat",
"3": "acc",
"head": "ἐπῐ́"
},
"expansion": "ἐπῐ́ • (epí) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)",
"name": "grc-preposition"
}
],
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"lang_code": "grc",
"pos": "prep",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He sits down on a throne.",
"roman": "kathézetai epì thrónou.",
"text": "καθέζεται ἐπὶ θρόνου.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The arrows rattled on the shoulders of the angry god as he moved.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.46",
"roman": "éklanxan d’ ár’ oïstoì ep’ ṓmōn khōoménoio",
"text": "ἔκλαγξαν δ’ ἄρ’ ὀϊστοὶ ἐπ’ ὤμων χωομένοιο"
},
{
"english": "Come, let us flee on our chariot.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.356",
"roman": "all’ áge dḕ pheúgōmen eph’ híppōn",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγε δὴ φεύγωμεν ἐφ’ ἵππων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on, upon (on the upper surface of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But their spears were driven into the ground erect on their spikes.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.153",
"roman": "énkhea dé sphin / órth’ epì saurōtêros elḗlato",
"text": "ἔγχεα δέ σφιν / ὄρθ’ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆρος ἐλήλατο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on (supported by)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He died on the foreign ground that he desired.",
"ref": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1705–1706",
"roman": "hâs ékhrēize gâs epì xénas / éthane",
"text": "ἇς ἔχρῃζε γᾶς ἐπὶ ξένας / ἔθανε"
},
{
"english": "He put his own daughter in a brothel.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121E.2",
"roman": "tḕn thugatéra tḕn heōutoû katísai ep’ oikḗmatos",
"text": "τὴν θυγατέρα τὴν ἑωυτοῦ κατίσαι ἐπ’ οἰκήματος"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"in",
"in"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(mostly post-Homeric) in"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"post-Homeric",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And there near these selfsame [springs] are broad washing-tanks, fair and wrought of stone.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.153",
"roman": "éntha d’ ep’ autáōn plunoì eurées engùs éasi / kaloì laḯneoi",
"text": "ἔνθα δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτάων πλυνοὶ εὐρέες ἐγγὺς ἔασι / καλοὶ λαΐνεοι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"at, near"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"near",
"near"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "to ride at anchor",
"roman": "hormeîn ep’ ankúras",
"text": "ὁρμεῖν ἐπ’ ἀγκύρας",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"at (dependent upon)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(of ships) at (dependent upon)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of ships"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They proceeded by themselves.",
"roman": "eph’ heautôn ekhṓroun",
"text": "ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἐχώρουν",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"by oneself"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"by",
"by"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(with reflexive or personal pronoun) by oneself"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with reflexive or personal pronoun"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They formed a line four men deep.",
"roman": "etákhthēsan epì tettárōn",
"text": "ἐτάχθησαν ἐπὶ τεττάρων",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "The Thebans, however, were massed not less than fifty shields deep.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.12",
"roman": "hoi dè Thēbaîoi ouk élatton ḕ epì pentḗkonta aspídōn sunestramménoi êsan",
"text": "οἱ δὲ Θηβαῖοι οὐκ ἔλαττον ἢ ἐπὶ πεντήκοντα ἀσπίδων συνεστραμμένοι ἦσαν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"deep"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"deep",
"deep"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(with numerals, of a body of soldiers) deep"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a body of soldiers",
"with numerals"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Crimes of this kind are committed in secret, not before witnesses.",
"ref": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 3.8",
"roman": "ou gàr epì martúrōn allà kruptómena prássetai tà toiaûta",
"text": "οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ μαρτύρων ἀλλὰ κρυπτόμενα πράσσεται τὰ τοιαῦτα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"before (in the presence of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"before",
"before"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(with a person) before (in the presence of)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with a person"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "ἐπὶ τῶν πλουσίων […] αἰσθάνομαι\nepì tôn plousíōn […] aisthánomai\nIn the case of the rich, I can see that […]",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "And similarly in all other points, I find that human beings naturally differ from one another.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.9.3",
"roman": "horô d’ égōge kaì epì tôn állōn pántōn homoíōs kaì phúsei diaphérontas allḗlōn toùs anthrṓpous",
"text": "ὁρῶ δ’ ἔγωγε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων πάντων ὁμοίως καὶ φύσει διαφέροντας ἀλλήλων τοὺς ἀνθρώπους"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in the case of; on"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Haply it was made the turning-post of a race in the days of men of old, and now swift-footed goodly Achilles has appointed it his turning-post.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.332",
"roman": "tó ge nússa tétukto epì protérōn anthrṓpōn, / kaì nûn térmat’ éthēke podárkēs dîos Akhilleús",
"text": "τό γε νύσσα τέτυκτο ἐπὶ προτέρων ἀνθρώπων, / καὶ νῦν τέρματ’ ἔθηκε ποδάρκης δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in the time of"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "the [men] in power",
"roman": "oi épì tôn pragmátōn",
"text": "οἰ έπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But Dercyllus, the Athenian general in command of the district, made an attempt to arrest him.",
"ref": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Phocion 32.3",
"roman": "Derkúllou dè toû epì tês khṓras stratēgoû sullabeîn autòn epikheirḗsantos",
"text": "Δερκύλλου δὲ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγοῦ συλλαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπιχειρήσαντος"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"in"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"in",
"in"
]
],
"qualifier": "power",
"raw_glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"(of authority, power, etc.) in"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of authority"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"usually",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And not only on that, but on every [occasion] he has shown a deliberate intention to insult me.",
"ref": "361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 38",
"roman": "kaì ouk epì toútou mónon, all’ epì pántōn phaínetai proēirēménos m’ hubrízein",
"text": "καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτου μόνον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πάντων φαίνεται προῃρημένος μ’ ὑβρίζειν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+genitive]",
"on (an occasion)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "He sits down on a throne.",
"roman": "kathézetai epì thrónōi.",
"text": "καθέζεται ἐπὶ θρόνῳ.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But come now, enter in, and sit thee upon this chair.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.354",
"roman": "all’ áge nûn eíselthe kaì hézeo tôid’ epì díphrōi",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγε νῦν εἴσελθε καὶ ἕζεο τῷδ’ ἐπὶ δίφρῳ"
},
{
"english": "This device his shield bore upon its iron back: an earth-born giant carrying on his shoulders a whole city which he had wrenched from its base.",
"ref": "408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 1131",
"roman": "sidēronṓtois d’ aspídos túpois epên / gígas ep’ ṓmois gēgenḕs hólēn pólin / phérōn mokhloîsin exanaspásas báthrōn",
"text": "σιδηρονώτοις δ’ ἀσπίδος τύποις ἐπῆν / γίγας ἐπ’ ὤμοις γηγενὴς ὅλην πόλιν / φέρων μοχλοῖσιν ἐξανασπάσας βάθρων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"on, upon"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"on",
"on"
],
[
"upon",
"upon"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And after overcoming them as well, they left four thousand tenant farmers on the lands of the horse-breeders.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.77.2",
"roman": "nikḗsantes dè kaì toútous tetrakiskhilíous klēroúkhous epì tôn hippobotéōn têi khṓrēi leípousi",
"text": "νικήσαντες δὲ καὶ τούτους τετρακισχιλίους κληρούχους ἐπὶ τῶν ἱπποβοτέων τῇ χώρῃ λείπουσι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"in",
"in"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "They are feeding by the rock of Corax and near the spring Arethusa.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.408",
"roman": "hai dè némontai / pàr Kórakos pétrēi epí te krḗnēi Arethoúsēi",
"text": "αἱ δὲ νέμονται / πὰρ Κόρακος πέτρῃ ἐπί τε κρήνῃ Ἀρεθούσῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"at, near"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"near",
"near"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And he drew near and struck off his head over [the body of] Iphidamas.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.261",
"roman": "toîo d’ ep’ Iphidámanti kárē apékopse parastás",
"text": "τοῖο δ’ ἐπ’ Ἰφιδάμαντι κάρη ἀπέκοψε παραστάς"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"over"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Such beautiful prises did the goddess set there in thy honor.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.91",
"roman": "hoî’ epì soì katéthēke theà perikallé’ áethla",
"text": "οἷ’ ἐπὶ σοὶ κατέθηκε θεὰ περικαλλέ’ ἄεθλα"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in honor of"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "From there he came to Arcadia and stirred up disorder, uniting the Arcadians against Sparta.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.74.1",
"roman": "entheûten dè apikómenos es tḕn Arkadíēn neṓtera éprēsse prḗgmata, sunistàs toùs Arkádas epì tê Spártēi",
"text": "ἐνθεῦτεν δὲ ἀπικόμενος ἐς τὴν Ἀρκαδίην νεώτερα ἔπρησσε πρήγματα, συνιστὰς τοὺς Ἀρκάδας ἐπὶ τῆ Σπάρτῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"against"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"against",
"against"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Well, now, it seems that you at least do not have wits in addition to your beauty.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.454",
"roman": "ṑ pópoi, ouk ára soí g’ 'epì eídeï kaì phrénes êsan",
"text": "ὢ πόποι, οὐκ ἄρα σοί γ’ 'ἐπὶ εἴδεϊ καὶ φρένες ἦσαν"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in addition to, over, besides"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
],
[
"besides",
"besides"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
"Ancient Greek terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "One pear after another ripens.",
"roman": "ónkhnē ep’ ónkhnēi gēráskei",
"text": "ὄγχνη ἐπ’ ὄγχνῃ γηράσκει",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Murder cries out on the Fury, which from those killed before brings one ruin after another.",
"ref": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 404",
"roman": "boâi gàr loigòs Erinùn / parà tôn próteron phthiménōn átēn / hetéran epágousan ep’ átēi",
"text": "βοᾷ γὰρ λοιγὸς Ἐρινὺν / παρὰ τῶν πρότερον φθιμένων ἄτην / ἑτέραν ἐπάγουσαν ἐπ’ ἄτῃ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"after"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"after",
"after"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"(with duplication of head noun) after"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with duplication of head noun"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "And now we bear such weight with the foreigner that it is in our power to have you deprived of your lands and enslaved.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.29.2",
"roman": "nûn te parà tôi barbárōi tosoûto dunámetha hṓste ep’ hēmîn esti tês gês esterêsthai kaì pròs ēndrapodísthai huméas",
"text": "νῦν τε παρὰ τῷ βαρβάρῳ τοσοῦτο δυνάμεθα ὥστε ἐπ’ ἡμῖν ἐστι τῆς γῆς ἐστερῆσθαι καὶ πρὸς ἠνδραποδίσθαι ὑμέας"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"in the power of"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "Judgements and awards given according to the law while the government was democratic, shall be valid.",
"ref": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 56",
"roman": "tàs díkas kaì tàs diaítas, hósai egénonto epì toîs nómois en dēmokratouménēi têi pólei, kurías eînai",
"text": "τὰς δίκας καὶ τὰς διαίτας, ὅσαι ἐγένοντο ἐπὶ τοῖς νόμοις ἐν δημοκρατουμένῃ τῇ πόλει, κυρίας εἶναι"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"according to"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "And the earth will rot your bones as you lie in the land of Troy with your task unfinished.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.175",
"roman": "keiménou en Troíēi ateleutḗtōi epì érgōi",
"text": "σέο δ’ ὀστέα πύσει ἄρουρα\nκειμένου ἐν Τροίῃ ἀτελευτήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ\nséo d’ ostéa púsei ároura"
},
{
"english": "And in your prosperity, remember me in my death, and be fortunate evermore.",
"ref": "406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1554",
"roman": "kap’ eupraxíāi / mémnēsthé mou thanóntos eutukheîs aeí",
"text": "κἀπ’ εὐπραξίᾳ / μέμνησθέ μου θανόντος εὐτυχεῖς ἀεί"
},
{
"english": "He furnished them such amusement at dinner.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.12",
"roman": "tosaútas mèn autoîs euthumías pareîkhen epì tôi deípnōi",
"text": "τοσαύτας μὲν αὐτοῖς εὐθυμίας παρεῖχεν ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"in, with"
],
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[
"in",
"in"
],
[
"with",
"with"
]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(of conditions or circumstances) in, with"
],
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"of conditions or circumstances"
],
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"accusative",
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"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "Surely at night we will guard our own selves.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.529",
"roman": "all’ ḗtoi epì nuktì phuláxomen hēméas autoús",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἤτοι ἐπὶ νυκτὶ φυλάξομεν ἡμέας αὐτούς"
},
{
"english": "But here may he, who on this day of his own will shrinks from fight, become the sport of dogs.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.234",
"roman": "all’ aûthi kunôn mélpēthra génoito, / hós tis ep’ ḗmati tôide hekṑn methíēisi mákhesthai",
"text": "ἀλλ’ αὖθι κυνῶν μέλπηθρα γένοιτο, / ὅς τις ἐπ’ ἤματι τῷδε ἑκὼν μεθίῃσι μάχεσθαι"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"at, on"
],
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[
"at",
"at"
],
[
"on",
"on"
]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(of time, never in proper Attic) at, on"
],
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"of time"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "Then, perceiving after the deed had been done that this was the meaning of the oracle […]",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.164.3",
"roman": "mathṑn dè ep’ exergasménoisi tò mantḗion eòn toûto",
"text": "μαθὼν δὲ ἐπ’ ἐξεργασμένοισι τὸ μαντήιον ἐὸν τοῦτο"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"after"
],
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[
"after",
"after"
]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(of time) after"
],
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"of time"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "Many be the woes that shall yet be wrought because of her.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.585",
"roman": "ê t’ éti pollà teteúxetai álge’ ep’ autêi",
"text": "ἦ τ’ ἔτι πολλὰ τετεύξεται ἄλγε’ ἐπ’ αὐτῇ"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+dative]",
"on account of, for"
],
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[
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"on account of"
],
[
"for",
"for"
]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(expressing a cause) on account of, for"
],
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"accusative",
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"with-genitive"
]
},
{
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{
"english": "And their father was fordone with grievous old age, and begat no other son to leave in charge of his possessions.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.154",
"roman": "huiòn d’ ou téket’ állon epì kteátessi lipésthai",
"text": "ὃ δὲ τείρετο γήραϊ λυγρῷ,\nυἱὸν δ’ οὐ τέκετ’ ἄλλον ἐπὶ κτεάτεσσι λιπέσθαι\nhò dè teíreto gḗraï lugrôi,"
},
{
"english": "Here at the fire lie goats' paunches, which we set there for supper.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.44",
"roman": "gastéres haíd’ aigôn kéat’ en purí, tàs epì dórpōi / katthémetha",
"text": "γαστέρες αἵδ’ αἰγῶν κέατ’ ἐν πυρί, τὰς ἐπὶ δόρπῳ / κατθέμεθα"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"for"
],
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[
"for",
"for"
]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(expressing a purpose) for"
],
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"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
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{
"english": "When this offer was accepted by Pisistratus, who agreed on these terms [with Megacles], they devised a plan to bring Pisistratus back.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.60.3",
"roman": "endexaménou dè tòn lógon kaì homologḗsantos epì toútoisi Peisistrátou, mēkhanôntai dḕ epì têi katódōi prêgma",
"text": "ἐνδεξαμένου δὲ τὸν λόγον καὶ ὁμολογήσαντος ἐπὶ τούτοισι Πεισιστράτου, μηχανῶνται δὴ ἐπὶ τῇ κατόδῳ πρῆγμα"
},
{
"english": "They offered to make peace on the condition that the Athenians destroy the long walls and the walls of Piraeus.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica",
"roman": "all’ epoioûnto eirḗnēn eph’ hôi tá te makrà teíkhē kaì tòn Peiraiâ kathelóntas",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἐποιοῦντο εἰρήνην ἐφ’ ᾧ τά τε μακρὰ τείχη καὶ τὸν Πειραιᾶ καθελόντας"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"on"
],
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[
"on",
"on"
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],
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"[+dative]",
"(of a condition) on"
],
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"of a condition"
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"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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{
"english": "Who is there now that would promise me this deed and bring it to pass for a great gift?",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.304",
"roman": "tís kén moi tóde érgon huposkhómenos teléseie / dṓrōi épi megálōi",
"text": "τίς κέν μοι τόδε ἔργον ὑποσχόμενος τελέσειε / δώρῳ ἔπι μεγάλῳ"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"for (i.e. in exchange for)"
],
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[
"for",
"for"
]
],
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"with-genitive"
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},
{
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{
"english": "Now the term employed for the hostility of the friendly is faction, and for that of the alien is war.",
"ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, R 470b",
"roman": "epì mèn oûn têi toû oikeíou ékhthrāi stásis kéklētai, epì dè têi toû allotríou pólemos",
"text": "ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τῇ τοῦ οἰκείου ἔχθρᾳ στάσις κέκληται, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου πόλεμος"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"for"
],
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[
"for",
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]
],
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"[+dative]",
"(of a name) for"
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"of a name"
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},
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{
"english": "Blameless Odysseus, who set me in charge of his cattle […]",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.209",
"roman": "Odusêos amúmonos, hós m’ epì bousìn / heîs’ éti tutthòn eónta",
"text": "Ὀδυσῆος ἀμύμονος, ὅς μ’ ἐπὶ βουσὶν / εἷσ’ ἔτι τυτθὸν ἐόντα"
}
],
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"[+dative]",
"in charge of"
],
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},
{
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],
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{
"english": "He got up onto the horse.",
"roman": "anébainen epì tòn híppon",
"text": "ἀνέβαινεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἵππον",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "But she went onto the great wall of Ilios.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.386",
"roman": "all’ epì púrgon ébē mégan Ilíou",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ πύργον ἔβη μέγαν Ἰλίου"
},
{
"english": "They are accustomed to go up onto the highest peaks of the mountains to offer sacrifices to Zeus.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.131.2",
"roman": "hoì dè nomízousi Diì mèn epì tà hupsēlótata tôn oréōn anabaínontes thusías érdein",
"text": "οἳ δὲ νομίζουσι Διὶ μὲν ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλότατα τῶν ὀρέων ἀναβαίνοντες θυσίας ἔρδειν"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"onto (the upper surface of)"
],
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[
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"onto"
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],
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},
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{
"english": "For he had come to the swift ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.12",
"roman": "hò gàr êlthe thoàs epì nêas Akhaiôn lusómenós te thúgatra",
"text": "ὃ γὰρ ἦλθε θοὰς ἐπὶ νῆας Ἀχαιῶν λυσόμενός τε θύγατρα"
},
{
"english": "Now when they were come to the beautiful palace of Alexander, the handmaids turned forthwith to their tasks.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.421",
"roman": "haì d’ hót’ Alexándroio dómon perikallé’ híkonto, amphípoloi mèn épeita thoôs epì érga tráponto",
"text": "αἳ δ’ ὅτ’ Ἀλεξάνδροιο δόμον περικαλλέ’ ἵκοντο, ἀμφίπολοι μὲν ἔπειτα θοῶς ἐπὶ ἔργα τράποντο"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"to"
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[
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"to"
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{
"english": "Beyond this wild beasts' haunt runs a ridge of sand that stretches from Thebes of Egypt up to the Pillars of Heracles.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.181.1",
"roman": "hupèr dè tês thēriṓdeos ophrúē psámmēs katḗkei parateínousa apò Thēbéōn tôn Aiguptiéōn ep’ Hērakléas stḗlas",
"text": "ὑπὲρ δὲ τῆς θηριώδεος ὀφρύη ψάμμης κατήκει παρατείνουσα ἀπὸ Θηβέων τῶν Αἰγυπτιέων ἐπ’ Ἡρακλέας στήλας"
},
{
"english": "We have not yet come to the end of all our trials.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.248",
"roman": "ou gár pō pántōn epì peírat’ aéthlōn / ḗlthomen",
"text": "οὐ γάρ πω πάντων ἐπὶ πείρατ’ ἀέθλων / ἤλθομεν"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
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],
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"with-genitive"
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},
{
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{
"english": "Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake.",
"ref": "70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 10:18",
"roman": "kaì epì hēgemónas dè kaì basileîs akhthḗsesthe héneken emoû",
"text": "καὶ ἐπὶ ἡγεμόνας δὲ καὶ βασιλεῖς ἀχθήσεσθε ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
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],
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"before"
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],
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"[+accusative]",
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]
},
{
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],
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{
"english": "The Thebans formed twenty-five shields deep.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93",
"roman": "ep’ aspídas dè pénte mèn kaì eíkosi Thēbaîoi etáxanto",
"text": "ἐπ’ ἀσπίδας δὲ πέντε μὲν καὶ εἴκοσι Θηβαῖοι ἐτάξαντο"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"deep"
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[
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"deep"
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],
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"[+accusative]",
"(of an army) deep"
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"with-genitive"
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},
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{
"english": "The Chalcidians however attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica.",
"ref": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.74",
"roman": "Khalkidées te epì tà hétera esínonto epióntes khṓrous tês Attikês",
"text": "Χαλκιδέες τε ἐπὶ τὰ ἕτερα ἐσίνοντο ἐπιόντες χώρους τῆς Ἀττικῆς"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
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"english": "But Hector marked them across the ranks, and rushed against them shouting aloud.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.590",
"roman": "toùs d’ Héktōr enóēse katà stíkhas, ôrto d’ ep’ autoùs / keklḗgōn",
"text": "τοὺς δ’ Ἕκτωρ ἐνόησε κατὰ στίχας, ὦρτο δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς / κεκλήγων"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"against"
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[
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"against"
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],
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"with-genitive"
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},
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{
"english": "Is it thus indeed that the Argives are to flee their dear native land over the broad back of the sea?",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.159",
"roman": "hoútō dḕ oîkon dè phílēn es patrída gaîan / Argeîoi pheúxontai ep’ euréa nôta thalássēs",
"text": "οὕτω δὴ οἶκον δὲ φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν / Ἀργεῖοι φεύξονται ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"over"
],
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[
"over",
"over"
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],
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"with-genitive"
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{
"english": "Endure, my friends, and abide for a time.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.299",
"roman": "tlête phíloi, kaì meínat’ epì khrónon",
"text": "τλῆτε φίλοι, καὶ μείνατ’ ἐπὶ χρόνον"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"for, during"
],
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"for"
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"during"
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],
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"[+accusative]",
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{
"english": "So there among the leaves I slept, my heart sore stricken, the whole night through, until the morning.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.288",
"roman": "éntha mèn en phúlloisi phílon tetiēménos êtor / heûdon pannúkhios kaì ep’ ēô",
"text": "ἔνθα μὲν ἐν φύλλοισι φίλον τετιημένος ἦτορ / εὗδον παννύχιος καὶ ἐπ’ ἠῶ"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
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"until"
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],
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{
"english": "Come now, let one go to the plain for a heifer.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.421",
"roman": "all’ ág’ ho mèn pedíond’ epì boûn, ítō",
"text": "ἀλλ’ ἄγ’ ὁ μὲν πεδίονδ’ ἐπὶ βοῦν, ἴτω"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"for (the purpose of)"
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"for",
"for"
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{
"english": "Our hands are clean with respect to this girl.",
"ref": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 889",
"roman": "hēmeîs gàr hagnoì toupì tḗnde tḕn kórēn",
"text": "ἡμεῖς γὰρ ἁγνοὶ τοὐπὶ τήνδε τὴν κόρην"
}
],
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"[+accusative]",
"for (with respect to)"
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"for"
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],
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"examples": [
{
"english": "He also instructed each one of the newly-mounted officers to appoint some other peer to take his place of command over the infantry of the peers.",
"ref": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.58",
"roman": "epì dè toùs pezoùs tôn homotímōn anth’ hautoû hékaston kathistánai állon árkhonta tôn homotímōn",
"text": "ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς πεζοὺς τῶν ὁμοτίμων ἀνθ’ αὑτοῦ ἕκαστον καθιστάναι ἄλλον ἄρχοντα τῶν ὁμοτίμων"
}
],
"glosses": [
"[+accusative]",
"over (in command of)"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"over",
"over"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But the liers-in-wait, when they saw these coming on, rushed forth against them and speedily cut off the herds of cattle and fair flocks of white-fleeced sheep, and slew the herdsmen as well.",
"ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.529",
"roman": "hoì mèn tà proïdóntes epédramon, ôka d’ épeita / támnont’ amphì boôn agélas kaì pṓea kalà / argennéōn oiôn, kteînon d’ epì mēlobotêras",
"text": "οἳ μὲν τὰ προϊδόντες ἐπέδραμον, ὦκα δ’ ἔπειτα / τάμνοντ’ ἀμφὶ βοῶν ἀγέλας καὶ πώεα καλὰ / ἀργεννέων οἰῶν, κτεῖνον δ’ ἐπὶ μηλοβοτῆρας"
}
],
"glosses": [
"as well, besides (often with δέ (dé))"
],
"head_nr": 1,
"links": [
[
"as well",
"as well"
],
[
"besides",
"besides"
],
[
"δέ",
"δέ#Ancient Greek"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(without a noun) as well, besides (often with δέ (dé))"
],
"raw_tags": [
"without a noun"
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"dative",
"with-genitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/e.pí/"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/e.pí/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/eˈpi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "ep’",
"tags": [
"apocopic"
],
"word": "ἐπ’"
},
{
"word": "before a smooth breathing"
},
{
"english": "stress-shifted",
"roman": "épi",
"word": "ἔπι"
},
{
"roman": "ép’",
"tags": [
"apocopic",
"stressed"
],
"word": "ἔπ’"
},
{
"english": "et",
"word": "ἐτ — Thessalian"
},
{
"word": "before τ"
},
{
"roman": "eph’",
"tags": [
"apocopic"
],
"word": "ἐφ’"
},
{
"word": "before a rough breathing"
}
],
"word": "ἐπί"
}
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