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ἄπειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπειμι

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be away or far from, to be wanting
  2. to be away or absent, to be wanting

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

  • ὅσοι δὲ μὴ θάνοιεν ἐν μάχῃ Φρυγῶν, ἀεὶ κατ’ ἦμαρ σὺν δάμαρτι καὶ τέκνοισ ᾤκουν, Ἀχαιοῖσ ὧν ἀπῆσαν ἡδοναί. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:3)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐμοὶ ναῦται πιστεύοντεσ αὑτοῖσ ἐπὶ τῷ δύνασθαι ἐλαύνειν, ὅπου ἔμελλον ἀργύριον πάλιν πλεῖστον λήψεσθαι, ἐνταῦθ’ ἀπῇσαν, ἡγούμενοι τὴν ἐν τῷ παρόντι εὐπορίαν κρείττω εἶναι αὑτοῖσ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ φόβου, εἴ ποτε ληφθείησαν ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 21:2)
  • ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐκκλησία μὲν οὐκέτ’ ἦν ὑπόλοιποσ οὐδεμία διὰ τὸ προκατακεχρῆσθαι, οὗτοι δ’ οὐκ ἀπῇσαν, ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ διέτριβον, γράφω ψήφισμα βουλεύων, τὴν βουλὴν ποιήσαντοσ τοῦ δήμου κυρίαν, ἀπιέναι τοὺσ πρέσβεισ τὴν ταχίστην, τὸν δὲ στρατηγὸν Πρόξενον κομίζειν αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ τόπουσ ἐν οἷσ ἂν ὄντα Φίλιππον πυνθάνηται, γράψασ ὥσπερ νῦν λέγω, τοῖσ ῥήμασιν οὕτωσ ἄντικρυσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 199:2)
  • καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὡσ τήν τε φάλαγγα αὐτῶν πυκνὴν κατεῖδε καὶ αὐτῷ οἱ πεζοὶ ἀπῆσαν, προσβολὰσ μὲν ἐποιεῖτο ἐσ κύκλουσ παριππεύων, ἐσ χεῖρασ δὲ οὐκ ᾔει τοῖσ Ἰνδοῖσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 8 6:4)
  • καὶ χρόνον μέν τινα ἐπέσχον τῆσ πορείασ οἱ βάρβαροι, ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὀψὲ ἐγίγνετο, ἀπῇσαν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 38:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be away or far from

  2. to be away or absent

Related

Derived

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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