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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

  • κἀνταῦθα γυμνὸν σῶμα θεὶσ πορπαμάτων, πρὸσ οὐδέν’ ἡμιλλᾶτο κἀκηρύσσετο αὐτὸσ πρὸσ αὑτοῦ καλλίνικοσ οὐδενόσ, ἀκοὴν ὑπειπών. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:7)
  • ἐξαναλώθησαν δὲ φιλοτιμούμενοι πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ τρυφαῖσ, καὶ ἡ πόλισ δὲ πρὸσ ἁπάσασ τὰσ ἄλλασ ἡμιλλᾶτο περὶ τρυφῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 18 4:1)
  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ ὁ μὲν Ἄρατοσ ἐμφὺσ τῇ πορείᾳ παρὰ τὸ κρημνῶδεσ ἡμιλλᾶτο, βραδέωσ καὶ ταλαιπώρωσ τὸ πρῶτον, οὐ κατακρατῶν, ἀλλ’ ἀποπλανώμενοσ τοῦ τρίβου παντάπασιν ἐνδεδυκότοσ καὶ πεοισκιαζομένου ταῖσ τραχύτησι καὶ διὰ πολλῶν ἑλιγμῶν καὶ παραβολῶν περαίνοντοσ πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ, εἶτα θαυμάσιον οἱο͂ν ἡ σελήνη λέγεται διαστέλλουσα τὰ νέφη καὶ ὑπολαμποῦσα, τῆσ ὁδοῦ τὸ χαλεπώτατον σαφηνίζειν, ἑώσ ἥψατο τοῦ τείχουσ καθ’ ὃν ἔδει τόπον· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 22 1:1)
  • αὐτὸσ δὲ δύο σπείρασ ἀναλαβὼν ἡμιλλᾶτο πρὸσ τόν λόφον, ἐρρωμένωσ ἑπομένων τῶν στρατιωτῶν διὰ τὸ κἀκεῖνον ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ὁρᾶν πρῶτον κακοπαθοῦντα πεζὸν καὶ προσβιαζόμενον. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 28 3:2)

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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