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ἐπιθυμίαι (epithymiai)

ἐπιθυμίαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιθυμία, meaning “desire, longing”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 13: … ἐγγίγνεται οὐδέποτʼ οὐδέν. καὶ γὰρ πολέμους καὶ στάσεις καὶ μάχας οὐδὲν ἄλλο παρέχει ἢ τὸ σῶμα καὶ αἱ τούτου ἐπιθυμίαι· διὰ γὰρ τὴν τῶν χρημάτων κτῆσιν πάντες οἱ πόλεμοι γίγνονται· τὰ δὲ χρήματα ἀναγκαζόμεθα κτᾶσθαι διὰ τὸ σῶμα, …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 7.12.74: Ἐπιθυμίαι δὲ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἁμαρτήματα »τρίβολοι καὶ σκόλοπες« εἴρηνται. ἐργάζεται τοίνυν ὁ γνωστικὸς ἐν τῷ τοῦ κυρίου ἀμπ …

All forms of ἐπιθυμία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.