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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

  • καίτοι κἂν μὴ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ εἴπῃ, ἐννοεῖσ, οἶμαι, καὶ αὐτὸσ ὡσ οὐκ ἄν ποτε ληφθεὶσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἐν πολέμῳ ἀπόρρητὸν τι ἐξείποι τῆσ Σπάρτησ αἰκιζομένων τῶν ἐχθρῶν, ἀλλὰ καταγελῶν αὐτῶν μαστιγοῖτο ἂν ἁμιλλώμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν παίοντα, ὁπότεροσ ἀπαγορεύσειεν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 38:9)
  • "οὐκ ἂν ἐβουλόμην, ὦ Ἀριστείδη, σὲ κατὰ τοῦτό μου κρείττονα γενέσθαι, πειράσομαι δὲ πρὸσ καλὴν ἀρχὴν ἁμιλλώμενοσ ὑπερβάλλεσθαι τοῖσ ἔργοισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 8 5:2)
  • γενόμενοσ δὲ τῆσ ὁδοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐκτροπὴν τὴν ἄνω φέρουσαν, ἐκείνην μὲν ἐκέλευσε προάγειν εἰσ τὸ θέατρον, αὐτὸσ δὲ χαίρειν μὲν Ἀμοιβέα, χαίρειν δὲ τοὺσ γάμουσ ἐάσασ ἀνῄει πρὸσ τὸν Ἀκροκόρινθον ἁμιλλώμενοσ παρ’ ἡλικίαν καὶ κεκλεισμένην τὴν πύλην εὑρών, ἔκοπτε τῇ βακτηρίᾳ κελεύων ἀνοίγειν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 17 4:2)
  • ὕστερον δὲ λογισμὸν ἑαυτῷ διδοὺσ πολὺ τῆσ φιλοτιμίασ ὑφεῖλεν, ὡσ πρὸσ ἀόριστον πρᾶγμα τὴν δόξαν ἁμιλλώμενοσ καὶ πέρασ οὐκ ἐφικτὸν ἔχουσαν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 6 4:2)
  • οὐ τοιοῦτοσ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπεὶ Κρίσων ὁ σταδιοδρόμοσ ἁμιλλώμενοσ αὐτῷ περὶ τάχουσ ἔδοξεν ἑκὼν παρεῖναι, σφόδρα διηγανάκτησεν . (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 12 1:3)

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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