lapse

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

interval: P. διάλειμμα, τό.

fault: P. πλημμέλεια, ή, P. and V. ἁμαρτία, ή, V. ἀμπλάκημα, τό; see fault.

owing to lapse of time: P. διὰ χρόνου πλῆθος.

after a considerable lapse of time: P. προελθόντος πολλοῦ χρόνου.

after a sufficient lapse of time: P. χρόνου ἐπελθόντος ἱκανοῦ.

after the lapse of three years: P. διαλιπόντων ἐτῶν τριῶν.

verb intransitive

pass, elapse: P. and V. παρέρχεσθαι, διέρχεσθαι, P. διαγίγνεσθαι, προέρχεσθαι.

lapse into: P. περιίστασθαι εἰς (acc.), ἀποκλίνειν, πρός (acc.), ἐκπίπτειν εἰς (acc.).

fall into: P. and V. πίπτειν εἰς (acc.).

lapse to, devolve on: P. and V. προσκεῖσθαι (dat.), V. ῥέπειν εἰς (acc.); see devolve on.

come to an end: P. and V. ἐξέρχεσθαι, ἐξήκειν.

it happened that their thirty years truce with the Argives was on the point of lapsing: P. συνέβαινε πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους αὐτοῖς τὰς τριακονταέτεις σπονδὰς ἐπ' ἐξόδῳ εἶναι (Thuc. 5, 14; cf. also Thuc. 5, 28).