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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

  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἐπ’ οἶδμα πόντιον γλαυκῆσ ἁλὸσ τλήμων ἀλῶμαι χρόνον ὅσονπερ Ἰλίου πύργουσ ἔπερσα, κἀσ πάτραν χρῄζων μολεῖν οὐκ ἀξιοῦμαι τοῦδε πρὸσ θεῶν τυχεῖν. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue4)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν ὧδ’ ἀπητιμασμένη ἄλλοισιν ἐν νεκροῖσιν, ὧν μὲν ἔκτανον ὄνειδοσ ἐν φθιτοῖσιν οὐκ ἐκλείπεται, αἰσχρῶσ δ’ ἀλῶμαι· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 8:2)

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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