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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

  • ὑμεῖσ δ’ ἐνθυμεῖσθ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, πρὸσ μὲν τὰ τούτου παιδία, ὅτι πολλῶν συμμάχων ὑμετέρων καὶ φίλων παῖδεσ ἀλῶνται καὶ πτωχοὶ περιέρχονται δεινὰ πεπονθότεσ διὰ τοῦτον, οὓσ ἐλεεῖν πολλῷ μᾶλλον ὑμῖν ἄξιον ἢ τοὺσ τοῦ ἠδικηκότοσ καὶ προδότου πατρόσ, καὶ ὅτι τοὺσ ὑμετέρουσ παῖδασ οὗτοι, καὶ τοῖσ ἐκγόνοισ προσγράψαντεσ <εἰσ> τὴν εἰρήνην, καὶ τῶν ἐλπίδων ἀπεστερήκασι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 399:2)
  • καὶ ὅτι γῆσ ἀγαθῆσ αὐτοὺσ πείσαντοσ ἀπαναστῆναι τὴν μὲν ἀπολέσειαν, ἀντὶ δὲ ἧσ ὑπέσχετο παρέξειν εὐδαιμονίασ ἐν ταύταισ ἀλῶνται ταῖσ ταλαιπωρίαισ, ὕδατοσ μὲν σπανίζοντεσ, εἰ δὲ καὶ τὴν μάνναν ἐπιλιπεῖν συμβαίη τέλεον ἀπολούμενοι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 381:1)

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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