succession

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 (Sophocles, Antigone 174).

be next in succession, next of kin: P. and V. ἐγγύτατα γένους εἶναι, P. ἀγχιστεύειν.