ἐφέδρα

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Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνονAnaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep

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Transliteration A: ephédra Transliteration B: ephedra Transliteration C: efedra Beta Code: e)fe/dra

English (LSJ)

Ion, ἐπέδρη, ἡ,

   A sitting by or before a place: hence, siege, blockade, Hdt.1.17; ἐπέδρην ποιήσασθαι Id.5.65; observation of a besieged place, Ath.Mech.18.14 (pl.).    2 sitting upon, Pl.Plt. 288a.    II stable, Phleg.Mir.3.    2 base, Hero Spir.1.30.    3 surface of a threshold, Rev.Phil.44.249 (Didyma, ii B.C.).    III a plant, = ἵππουρις, Hsch., Plin.HN26.36, Ps.-Dsc.4.46.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1113] ἡ, das Dabeisitzen, die Belagerung, Her. 1, 17. 5, 65, in ion. Form ἐπέδρη. – Das Daraufsitzen, Plat. Polit. 288 a. – Eine Pflanze, = ἵππουρις, Hesych.; vgl. Plin. H. N. 26, 7, 10.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐφέδρα: Ἰων. ἐπέδρη, ἡ, τὸ ἐφεδρεύειν, παραμένειν πλησίον τόπου τινός· ἐντεῦθεν, πολιορκία, ἀποκλεισμός, Λατ. obsessio, Ἡρόδ. 1. 17· ἐπέδρην ποιεῖσθαι ὁ αὐτ. 5. 65. 2) κάθισις ἐπί τινος πράγματος, Λατ. insessio, διότι πᾶν ἕνεκά τινος ἐφέδρας ἐστὶ πλάτ. Πολιτικ. 288Α. ΙΙ. σταθμός, «στάβλος», Χρησ. παρὰ Φλέγ. ἐν Θαυμασ. 3. 2) βάσις, Ἥρων Πνευμ. σ. 183. ΙΙΙ. «πόα τις, ἣν καὶ ἵππουριν καλοῦσι» Ἡσύχ., Πλίν. 26. 20.