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ἔκπυστος
ἔκπυστος
Ancient Greek
Adjective
ἔκπῠστος • (ékpustos) m, f (neuter ἔκπῠστος); second declension
- heard of, discovered
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, 3 30
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ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ πλεῖν ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ Μυτιλήνην πρὶν ἐκπύστους γενέσθαι
- it seems best to me for us to sail to Mytilene before we are discovered
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ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ πλεῖν ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ Μυτιλήνην πρὶν ἐκπύστους γενέσθαι
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Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | |||||||
| Nominative | ἔκπῠστος | ἔκπῠστον | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἔκπῠστοι | ἔκπῠστᾰ | |||||||
| Genitive | ἐκπῠ́στου | ἐκπῠ́στου | ἐκπῠ́στοιν | ἐκπῠ́στοιν | ἐκπῠ́στων | ἐκπῠ́στων | |||||||
| Dative | ἐκπῠ́στῳ | ἐκπῠ́στῳ | ἐκπῠ́στοιν | ἐκπῠ́στοιν | ἐκπῠ́στοις | ἐκπῠ́στοις | |||||||
| Accusative | ἔκπῠστον | ἔκπῠστον | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἐκπῠ́στους | ἔκπῠστᾰ | |||||||
| Vocative | ἔκπῠστε | ἔκπῠστον | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἐκπῠ́στω | ἔκπῠστοι | ἔκπῠστᾰ | |||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| ἐκπῠ́στως | ἐκπῠστώτερος | ἐκπῠστώτᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- ἔκπυστος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔκπυστος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers