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ἀμφινέμομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφινέμομαι

Structure: ἀμφινέμ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to feed around, to dwell round

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • δοιώ μοι πεδίον τὸ Ἀρήιον ἀμφινέμονται ταύρω χαλκόποδε, στόματι φλόγα φυσιόωντεσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 7:31)
  • μοίρη δ’ ὀγδοάτη ὄχθον Κρόνου ἀμφινέμονται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 44)
  • ὅσσοι γὰρ νήσοισιν ἐπικρατέουσιν ἄριστοι, Δουλιχίῳ τε Σάμῃ τε καὶ ὑλήεντι Ζακύνθῳ, οἵ τ’ αὐτὴν Ἰθάκην εὐδείελον ἀμφινέμονται, οἵ μ’ ἀεκαζομένην μνῶνται, τρύχουσι δὲ οἶκον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 20:5)
  • οὐδ’ οἶδε Κρονίδησ ὑψίζυγοσ οὐδέ τισ ἄλλοσ ἀθανάτων, οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἀγάννιφον ἀμφινέμονται. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 19:3)

Synonyms

  1. to feed around

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

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