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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

  • ἴσμεν γὰρ οὐδὲν τρανέσ, ἀλλ’ ἀλώμεθα· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:10)
  • πεπραμένοι γὰρ νῦν γέ πωσ ἀλώμεθα πρὸσ τῆσ τεκούσησ, ἄνδρα δ’ ἀντηλλάξατο Αἴγισθον, ὅσπερ σοῦ φόνου μεταίτιοσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 3:20)
  • δείλαιοι, τί κεναῖσιν ἀλώμεθα θαρσήσαντεσ ἐλπίσιν, ἀτηροῦ ληθόμενοι θανάτου; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3761)

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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