Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • σὲ δ’ ἐρχόμενον ἐν δίκᾳ πολὺσ ὄλβοσ ἀμφινέμεται· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 3:2)
  • δοιώ μοι πεδίον τὸ Ἀρήιον ἀμφινέμονται ταύρω χαλκόποδε, στόματι φλόγα φυσιόωντεσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 7:31)
  • φῆ δὲ δύω πεδίον τὸ Ἀρήιον ἀμφινέμεσθαι ταύρω χαλκόποδε, στόματι φλόγα φυσιόωντασ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 9:17)
  • 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)

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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