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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

  • ἡ δὲ σύγκλητοσ ἁμιλλωμένη πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ἔγραψεν ἐπαινεθῆναι τὰσ πόλεισ ὅσαι τὸν Κικέρωνα παρὰ τὴν φυγὴν ἐθεράπευσαν, καὶ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτῷ καὶ τὰσ ἐπαύλεισ, ἃσ Κλώδιοσ διεφθάρκει, τέλεσι δημοσίοισ ἀνασταθῆναι. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 33 4:2)
  • "ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἥλιοσ μὲν ἐκλείπει καταλαμβανόμενοσ, σελήνη δ’ ἀπαντῶσα τῷ ποιοῦντι τὴν ἔκλειψιν, εἰκότωσ μᾶλλον δ’ ἀναγκαίωσ ὁ μὲν ὄπισθεν ἁλίσκεται πρῶτον ἡ δ’ ἔμπροσθεν ἄρχεται γὰρ ἐκεῖθεν ἡ ἐπιπρόσθησισ, ὅθεν πρῶτον ἐπιβάλλει τὸ ἐπιπροσθοῦν ἐπιβάλλει δ’ ἐκείνῳ μὲν ἀφ’ ἑσπέρασ ἡ σελήνη πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἁμιλλωμένη , ταύτῃ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνατολῶν, ὡσ πρὸσ τοὐναντίον ὑποφερομένη. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 20 5:11)
  • μόνη γὰρ ὡσ εἰπεῖν διαγέγονε πρὸσ τὴν ἁπάντων τύχην ἁμιλλωμένη καὶ πειρωμένη πᾶσι περιτρέπειν τὰσ συμφορὰσ ἐπὶ θάτερα, καὶ τὴν παροιμίαν ἐνήλλαξεν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:2)
  • καὶ πρὶν τὰ πρῶτα ἀξίωσ τινὰ θαυμάσαι, ἐπέθηκε τὰ δεύτερα, ὥσπερ αὐτὴ πρὸσ αὑτὴν ἁμιλλωμένη. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 37:3)

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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