Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλέομαι

Structure: ἀλέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from same root as a)la/omai.

Sense

  1. to avoid, shun, to avoid
  2. to flee for one's life, flee

Examples

  • Ὡσ μὲν ὁ παῖσ ἐχάρη καὶ ἀνάλατο καὶ πλατάγησε νικάσασ, οὑτῶσ ἐπὶ ματέρι νεβρὸσ ἅλοιτο. (Theocritus, Idylls, 69)
  • οὗτοσ κἂν εἰσ μαχαίρασ κυβιστήσειε κἂν εἰσ πῦρ ἅλοιτο. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 12:4)
  • οὐκ εὖ δὲ οὐδὲ τὸν Καλλίμαχον λέγειν φασίν, ὡσ ἡ Βριτόμαρτισ φεύγουσα τὴν Μίνω βίαν ἀπὸ τῆσ Δίκτησ ἅλοιτο εἰσ ἁλιέων δίκτυα, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὴ μὲν Δίκτυννα ὑπὸ τῶν Κυδωνιατῶν προσαγορευθείη, Δίκτη δὲ τὸ ὄροσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 17:8)

Synonyms

  1. to avoid

  2. to flee for one's life

Derived

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

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