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ἀπομάχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: apomachomai

Principal Part: ἀπομάχομαι

Structure: ἀπο (Prefix) + μάχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fight from, to fight from, to fight desperately
  2. to fight off, decline
  3. to drive, off in battle

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

  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν τούτων τροπὴν καὶ ἀπώλειαν ἐπεστράτευσεν Ἰούδας καὶ ἐπὶ Ἐφρὼν πόλιν ὀχυράν, ἐν ᾗ κατῴκει Λυσίας καὶ πάμφυλα πλήθη. νεανίαι δὲ πρὸ τῶν τειχῶν καθεστῶτες ρωμαλέοι ἀπεμάχοντο εὐρώστως, ἔνθα δὲ ὀργάνων καὶ βελῶν πολλαὶ παραθέσεις ὑπῆρχον (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:27)
  • λόγχας δὲ ἐς ἀμφότερα φέρουσι, καὶ ἀκοντίσαι μακρόθεν, ὁπότε τούτου δέοι, καὶ ἐγγύθεν ἐκ χειρὸς ἀπομάχεσθαι: (Arrian, chapter 4 14:1)
  • χωρὶς δὲ τῶν ἐμφανῶν τούτων ἔκνιζεν αὐτὸν οὐ μετρίως ὁ τοῦ παιδὸς ἔρως ἐνεσταγμένος, εἰ καί πάνυ παρόντος αὐτοῦ τῷ φιλονείκῳ χρώμενος ἐπειρᾶτο νεανικῶς ἀπομάχεσθαι πρὸς τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 11 5:1)
  • "ὃ μὲν δὴ λέγων ταῦτα ἀπεμάχετο . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 348)
  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ Καῖσαρ οὐκ ἀμελεῖν τοῦ ἀνδρός, ἀλλὰ καὶ προειπεῖν τοῖς ὑφ ἑαυτὸν ἡγεμόσιν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ μὴ κτείνειν Βροῦτον, ἀλλὰ φείδεσθαι, καὶ παρασχόντα μὲν ἑκουσίως ἄγειν, εἰ δὲ ἀπομάχοιτο πρὸς τὴν σύλληψιν, ἐᾶν καὶ μὴ βιάζεσθαι: (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 5 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to fight from

  2. to fight off

  3. to drive

Derived

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

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