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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

  • φεύγοντι δ’ οὖν τῷ Γαϊῴ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐπιφερομένων καὶ καταλαμβανόντων περὶ τὴν ξυλίνην γέφυραν, οἱ μὲν δύο φίλοι προχωρεῖν ἐκεῖνον κελεύσαντεσ αὐτοὶ τοὺσ διώκοντασ ὑπέστησαν καὶ μαχόμενοι πρὸ τῆσ γεφύρασ οὐδένα παρῆκαν ἑώσ ἀπέθανον, τῷ δὲ Γαϊῴ συνέφευγεν εἷσ οἰκέτησ ὄνομα Φιλοκράτησ, πάντων μὲν, ὥσπερ ἐν ἁμίλλῃ, παρακελευομένων, οὐδενὸσ δὲ βοηθοῦντοσ, οὐδὲ ἵππον αἰτουμένῳ παρασχεῖν ἐθελήσαντοσ ἐπέκειντο γὰρ ἐγγὺσ οἱ διώκοντεσ. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 17 1:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ αὐτοῖσ δόξαν παρέσχε φιλοτιμίασ, ἵνα θᾶττον ἀνύηται τῇ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἁμίλλῃ τὰ ἔργα, αἴτιον δὲ τοῦ μεγίστου κακοῦ, στάσεωσ, ἐγένετο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 85 5:2)
  • ἐδόκει δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τισὶ μὴ πιθανὸν εἶναι γεγονέναι τὸ πυκτεύειν καὶ παλαίειν πρότερον ἐν ἀγῶνι καὶ ἁμίλλῃ τοῦ τροχάζειν, καὶ παρεκάλουν ἐξάγειν εἰσ τὸ ἀνώτερον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 5:1)
  • "πείθουσιν οἱ τὴν ἰσότητα τῶν φύλλων, οἱο͂ν ἀντανισταμένων ἀεὶ καὶ συνεκτρεχόντων, ἀγῶνι καὶ ἁμίλλῃ παραπλήσιόν τι ποιεῖν φάσκοντεσ, αὐτήν τε τὴν νίκην παρὰ τὸ μὴ εἶκον ὠνομάσθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 4:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔτι μὴν ἡνιόχοισί γε ἐν ἁμίλλῃ συντεταγμένοισ, πεισθεῖσιν ὑπὸ δωρεᾶσ ἑτέροισι τὴν νίκην ζεύγεσι προδοῦναι. (Plato, Laws, book 10 134:3)

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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