succession
From LSJ
ἆρ' ἐς τὸ κάλλος ἐκκεκώφηται ξίφη → can it be that her beauty has blunted their swords, can it be that their swords are blunted at the sight of her beauty
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. διαδοχή, ἡ, ἐκδοχή, ἡ.
a succession of signal fires: V. ἐκδοχὴ πομποῦ πυρός (Aesch., Agamemnon 299), or πυρὸς παραλλαγαί, αἱ (Aesch., Agamemnon 490).
in succession: P. κατὰ διαδοχήν; see successively.
in succession to one another: P. ἐκ διαδοχῆς ἀλλήλοις (Dem. 45).
right of succession: Ar. and P. ἀγχιστεία, ἡ.
by right of succession: V. γένους κατ' ἀγχιστεῖα (Soph., Antigone 174).
be next in succession, next of kin: P. and V. ἐγγύτατα γένους εἶναι, P. ἀγχιστεύειν.
