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ἀπομιμέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπομιμέομαι

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

Sense

  1. to express by imitating, copying, represent faithfully

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

  • Λαὶσ καλὴ ὡσ καὶ τοὺσ ζωγράφουσ ἐρχομένουσ πρὸσ αὐτὴν ἀπομιμεῖσθαι τῆσ γυναικὸσ τοὺσ μαστοὺσ καὶ τὰ στέρνα, διαζηλοτυπουμένη δέ ποτε ἡ Λαὶσ τῇ Φρύνῃ πολὺν ἐραστῶν ἔσχηκεν ὅμιλον, οὐ διακρίνουσα πλούσιον ἢ πένητα οὐδ’ ὑβριστικῶσ αὐτοῖσ χρωμένη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 54 2:1)
  • διὸ καὶ δοκεῖ τὸν ζῳδιακὸν ἅμα καὶ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἀπομιμεῖσθαι ταῖσ διανομαῖσ τῶν μοιρῶν ἰσαρίθμοισ οὔσαισ. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 5, section 1 5:1)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ τἆλλα παράτολμοσ ὁ Στρατοκλῆσ, καὶ βεβιωκὼσ ἀσελγῶσ καὶ τὴν τοῦ παλαιοῦ Κλέωνοσ ἀπομιμεῖσθαι δοκῶν βωμολοχίαν καὶ βδελυρίαν τῇ πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον εὐχερείᾳ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ ᾠδὰσ ὑπὸ κόρου τρέπεται καὶ νήξεσι χαίρει καὶ πτήσεσι καὶ ἀπομιμεῖσθαι παίζοντα φωνάσ τε παντοδαπὰσ καὶ ψόφουσ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 7 5:1)
  • συνεβούλευεν ὡσ Καίσαρα πρέσβεισ ἀποστέλλειν, Φαώνιοσ δέ τισ, ἀνὴρ τἆλλα μὲν οὐ πονηρόσ, αὐθαδείᾳ δὲ καὶ ὕβρει πολλάκισ τὴν Κάτωνοσ οἰόμενοσ ἀπομιμεῖσθαι παρρησίαν, ἐκέλευε τὸν Πομπήϊον τῷ ποδὶ τύπτειν τὴν γῆν, ἃσ ὑπισχνεῖτο δυνάμεισ ἀνακαλούμενον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 60 4:1)
  • ὥσ που καὶ Πλάτωνοσ ἀπομιμεῖσθαί φασι τοὺσ συνήθεισ τὸ ἐπίκυρτον, Ἀριστοτέλουσ δὲ τὸν τραυλισμόν, Ἀλεξάνδρου δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 9 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. to express by imitating

Derived

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

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