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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

  • "Θεσσαλὸσ Κίμωνοσ Λακιάδησ Ἀλκιβιάδην Κλεινίου Σκαμβωνίδην εἰσήγγειλεν ἀδικεῖν περὶ τὼ θεώ, τὴν Δήμητραν καὶ τὴν Κόρην, ἀπομιμούμενον τὰ μυστήρια καὶ δεικνύοντα τοῖσ αὑτοῦ ἑταίροισ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ, ἔχοντα στολὴν οἱάνπερ ὁ ἱεροφάντησ ἔχων δεικνύει τὰ ἱερά, καὶ ὀνομάζοντα αὑτὸν μὲν ἱεροφάντην, Πουλυτίωνα δὲ δᾳδοῦχον, κήρυκα δὲ Θεόδωρον Φηγαιᾶ, τοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ ἑταίρουσ μύστασ προσαγορεύοντα καὶ ἐπόπτασ παρὰ τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τὰ καθεστηκότα ὑπό τε Εὐμολπιδῶν καὶ Κηρύκων καὶ τῶν ἱερέων τῶν ἐξ Ἐλευσῖνοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 22 3:2)
  • ἦν γὰρ τὸ τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ γένοσ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ χοροῖσ εὔσχημον τότε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπὲσ καὶ ὡσανεὶ τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ κινήσεισ ἀπομιμούμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 25 3:5)
  • ἦν γὰρ τὸ τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ γένοσ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ χοροῖσ εὔσχημον τότε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπὲσ καὶ ὡσανεὶ τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ κινήσεισ ἀπομιμούμενον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 7)
  • κατὰ δὲ ταὐτὰ ταῦτα καὶ τὰ μέρη θεραπευτέον, τὸ τοῦ παντὸσ ἀπομιμούμενον εἶδοσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 466:1)
  • λέγεται δὲ τοῦτο πρᾶξαι τὸν Διονύσιον ἀπομιμούμενον Πεισίστρατον τὸν Ἀθηναῖον· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 93 19:2)

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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