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ἁμιλλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁμιλλάομαι

Structure: ἁμιλλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a(/milla

Sense

  1. to compete, vie, contend with, to contend in or with, about
  2. being matched
  3. to strive, struggle, to

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • ἅπαντι γοῦν τότε χρῆται τῷ δρόμῳ καὶ ὅλον ἐπιδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν τῷ τάχει ἁμιλλᾶται καὶ πρὸσ τοῦ πεδίου τὸ κάλλοσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 10:3)
  • καὶ μὴν γέροντι δεῦρ’ ἁμιλλᾶται ποδὶ ὁ Σπαρτιάτησ Τυνδάρεωσ, μελάμπεπλοσ κουρᾷ τε θυγατρὸσ πενθίμῳ κεκαρμένοσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 4:30)
  • πῶσ οὖν οὐκ ἀναίσχυντοσ οὗτοσ, ὃσ προσ Ἀλέξανδρον ἁμιλλᾶται, ᾧ οὐδὲ Σκηπίων ἐγὼ ὁ νενικηκὼσ ἐμαυτὸν παραβάλλεσθαι ἀξιῶ; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 17:1)
  • ὁ δ’ οὗν Θουκυδίδησ ἀεὶ τῷ λόγῳ πρὸσ ταύτην ἁμιλλᾶται τὴν ἐνάργειαν αν, οἱο͂ν θεατὴν ποιῆσαι τὸν ἀκροατὴν καὶ τὰ γιγνόμενα περὶ τοὺσ ὁρῶντασ ἐκπληκτικὰ καὶ ταρακτικὰ πάθη τοῖσ ἀναγινώσκουσιν ἐνεργάσασθαι λιχνευόμενοσ. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 3 1:2)
  • ὁ γοῦν Θουκυδίδησ ἀεὶ τῷ λόγῳ πρὸσ ταύτην ἁμιλλᾶται τὴν ἐνάργειαν, οἱο͂ν θεατὴν ποιῆσαι τὸν ἀκροατὴν καὶ τὰ γιγνόμενα περὶ τοὺσ ὁρῶντασ ἐκπληκτικὰ καὶ ταρακτικὰ πάθη τοῖσ ἀναγιγνώσκουσιν ἐνεργάσασθαι λιχνευόμενοσ. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 3 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to compete

  2. to strive

Derived

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

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