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ἀποδύρομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποδύρομαι

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + ὀδύρ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lament bitterly

Conjugation

Present 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

  • ὡσ δὲ τοῦτο ἐγενήθη, ἀκούσασ τοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὁμοεθνεῖσ κρυβῇ ἐκπορευομένουσ πυκνότερον ἀποδύρεσθαι τὴν ἀκλεᾶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ταλαιπωρίαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:12)
  • αἰσθόμενοι γὰρ ἢ περὶ γάμον δυστυχοῦντασ ἢ πρὸσ υἱοὺσ ὴ πρὸσ οἰκείουσ ὑπόπτωσ ἔχοντασ αὐτοὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν ἀφειδοῦσι καὶ ἀποδύρονται περὶ τέκνων ἰδίων ἢ γυναικὸσ ἢ συγγενῶν ἢ οἰκείων, αἰτίασ τινὰσ ἀπορρήτουσ ἐξαγορεύοντεσ ἡ γὰρ ὁμοιότησ συμπαθεστέρουσ ποιεῖ , καὶ μᾶλλον ὥσπερ ὅμηρα δεδεγμένοι προϊένταί τι τῶν ἀπορρήτων αὐτοῖσ, προέμενοι δὲ χρῶνται καὶ δεδίασιν ἐγκαταλιπεῖν τὴν πίστιν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 9 13:1)
  • τὸν δ’ ἱρέα ἐσ ἀπορίην ἀπειλημένον ἐσελθόντα ἐσ τὸ μέγαρον πρὸσ τὤγαλμα ἀποδύρεσθαι οἱᾶ κινδυνεύει παθεῖν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 141 4:1)
  • ἑνὸσ γὰρ μέροσ τοῦ πολέμου τοῦ τότε [ἡμέρα καὶ καιρὸσ], λέγω τοῦ Σικελικοῦ, πλείω κακὰ καὶ πράγματα ἡμῖν ἤνεγκεν ἢ Λακεδαιμονίοισ ἃ νῦν ἀποδύρονται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to lament bitterly

Derived

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

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