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|strgr=from [[ἐπί]] and a presumed derivative of [[ὀπτάνομαι]]; a looker-on: [[eye-witness]]. | |strgr=from [[ἐπί]] and a presumed derivative of [[ὀπτάνομαι]]; a looker-on: [[eye-witness]]. | ||
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|txtha=ἐπόπτου, ὁ (from [[unused]] [[ἐπόπτω]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> an [[overseer]], [[inspector]], [[see]] [[ἐπίσκοπος]]; ([[Aeschylus]], [[Pindar]], others; of God, in ἀνθρωπίνων ἔργων, Clement of [[Rome]], 1 Corinthians 59,3 [ET]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[spectator]], [[eye-witness]] of [[anything]]: so in ἐπόπται by the Greeks [[who]] had attained to the [[third]] (i. e. the [[highest]]) [[grade]] of the Eleusinian mysteries ([[Plutarch]], Alcib. 22, and [[elsewhere]]), the [[word]] seems to be used [[here]] to [[designate]] those privileged to be [[present]] at the [[heavenly]] [[spectacle]] of the transfiguration of Christ. | |||
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