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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

  • καὶ ἐθρυπτόμην δὲ πολλάκισ καὶ ἀπέκλειον αὐτῶν τινασ ἐνίοτε, οἱ δὲ ἡμιλλῶντο καὶ ἀλλήλουσ ὑπερεβάλλοντο ἐν τῇ περὶ ἐμὲ φιλοτιμίᾳ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:4)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἥ τε ἀσπὶσ ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν ἤρθη καὶ τῇ σάλπιγγι τὴν ἀναγωγὴν ἐσήμαινεν ἀπὸ τῆσ ναυαρχίδοσ, ἐπέπλεον μὲν αἱ νῆεσ, ἡμιλλῶντο δὲ οἱ πεζοὶ παρὰ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄκραν. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 2:2)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν δευτέραν ἀναστροφὴν εἰσ τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξίφουσ μάχην ὡρ́μησαν καὶ συμπλεκόμενοι πολλοὺσ ἀλλήλων ἀνῄρουν, οἵ τε ἡγεμόνεσ αὐτοὶ πρὸ πάντων κινδυνεύοντεσ προετρέποντο τοὺσ ὑποτεταγμένουσ εὐρώστωσ ὑπομένειν τὸ δεινόν, οἵ τ’ ἐπὶ τῶν κεράτων ἱππεῖσ, ἅπαντεσ ἐπιλελεγμένοι κατ’ ἀρετήν, ἡμιλλῶντο πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, θεατὰσ ἔχοντεσ τῆσ ἀνδρείασ τοὺσ συναγωνιζομένουσ στρατηγούσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 83 5:2)
  • διόπερ ἀμφοτέροισ ἐμπεσούσησ σπουδῆσ ἡμιλλῶντο πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ταῖσ εἰρεσίαισ, οἱ μὲν Φοίνικεσ νομίζοντεσ ἅμα τῇ τῶν νεῶν ἁλώσει Συρακούσσασ μὲν ὑποχειρίουσ ἕξειν, τὴν δὲ πατρίδα μεγάλων ἐλευθερώσειν κινδύνων· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 6 1:2)
  • καὶ οἱ περὶ τὸν Θηβαῖον δὲ αἰσθόμενοι τὴν σπουδὴν τῶν Φλειασίων ἡμιλλῶντο ὅπωσ φθάσειαν τοῖσ Πελληνεῦσι βοηθήσαντεσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 18:1)

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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