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ἀλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάομαι

Structure: ἀλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)/lh,

Sense

  1. to wander, stray or roam about, to wander from home, be banished, to wander over
  2. to wander away from, cease to enjoy
  3. to wander in mind, be distraught

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠλώμην ἠλῶ ἠλᾶτο
Dual ἠλᾶσθον ἠλᾱ́σθην
Plural ἠλώμεθα ἠλᾶσθε ἠλῶντο

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν ταῖσ Ἀθήναισ κατθανεῖν μ’ ἀλώμενον. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:37)
  • "οὕτωσ οὔτε φύσιν οὔτε χρῆσιν οὔτ’ αἴσθησιν ἀνθρώπων ἀναιροῦσιν οἱ κοινῆσ τινοσ οὐσίασ μετοχῇ καὶ ἰδέᾳ γιγνόμενον ἡμῶν ἕκαστον εἰκόνα τοῦ παρασχόντοσ τὴν ὁμοιότητα τῇ γενέσει προσαγορεύοντεσ οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ πῦρ μὴ λέγων εἶναι τὸν πεπυρωμένον σίδηρον ἢ τὴν σελήνην ἥλιον, ἀλλὰ κατὰ Παρμενίδην νυκτιφαὲσ περὶ γαῖαν ἀλώμενον, ἀλλότριον φῶσ, ἀναιρεῖ σιδήρου χρῆσιν ἢ σελήνησ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1513)
  • τοῦτο ἀνέστιον καὶ πτωχὸν ἀλώμενον ἐχθρὸν ἐκ τοῦ ἀναγκαίου τοῖσ κρείττοσιν ἦν καὶ νεωτερίζειν ἑτοιμότατον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 62 5:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἐν πενίᾳ διαγενέσθαι καὶ ἀλώμενον καὶ τοσοῦτον ἀπὸ τῶν ποιημάτων πορίζοντα ὅσον ἀποζῆν θαυμαστῆσ ἀνδρείασ καὶ μεγαλοφροσύνησ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 16:2)
  • ἥ ῥ’ Ὀδυσῆ’ ἐλέησεν ἀλώμενον, ἄλγε’ ἔχοντα, αἰθυίῃ δ’ ἐικυῖα ποτῇ ἀνεδύσετο λίμνησ, ἷζε δ’ ἐπὶ σχεδίησ πολυδέσμου εἶπέ τε μῦθον· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. to wander

  2. to wander away from

  3. to wander in mind

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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