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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

  • ἀλλὰ οἶδα ὅθεν μοι ταῦτα, παρὰ τῶν θαυμαστῶν σου φιλοσόφων, Ζηνοθέμιδοσ καὶ Λαβυρίνθου, ὧν ‐ ἀπείη δὲ ἡ Ἀδράστεια ‐ συλλογισμῷ ἑνὶ ἀποφράξαι ἄν μοι τάχιστα δοκῶ τὰ στόματα. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 23:3)
  • νῦν δ’ ὡσ ἔτ’ οὐκ ὢν εἶπε μὲν λέχουσ ὅ τι χρείη μ’ ἑλέσθαι κτῆσιν εἶπε δ’ ἣν τέκνοισ μοῖραν πατρῴασ γῆσ διαιρετὸν νέμοι, χρόνον προτάξασ ὡσ τρίμηνον ἡνίκα χώρασ ἀπείη κἀνιαύσιον βεβώσ, τότ’ ἢ θανεῖν χρείη σφε τῷδε τῷ χρόνῳ ἢ τοῦθ’ ὑπεκδραμόντα τοῦ χρόνου τέλοσ τὸ λοιπὸν ἤδη ζῆν ἀλυπήτῳ βίῳ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode8)
  • καὶ φθόνοσ μὲν ἀπείη τοῦ λόγου, δοκεῖ δέ μοί τισ ἂν εἰπὼν ὡσ ἡ τῶνδε τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀρετὴ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἦν ψυχὴ τἀληθὲσ εἰπεῖν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 29:4)
  • μετέπειτα δ’ ἀμοιβαδὶσ ἀλλήλοισιν μυθεῦνθ’, οἱᾶ́ τε πολλὰ νέοι παρὰ δαιτὶ καὶ οἴνῳ τερπνῶσ ἑψιόωνται, ὅτ’ ἀάτοσ ὕβρισ ἀπείη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 9:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἔτι ποτὲ ψυχὴ τούτου τοῦ ζῴου πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν λάβοι σχεδόν, ὅτου λόγοσ ἀπείη· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 33:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be away or far from

  2. to be away or absent

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Derived

Similar forms

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

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