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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)
  • καὶ γὰρ μάλισθ’ ἃ πολλοὶ τῶν διαδόχων ὕστερον καὶ τῶν φίλων ἀπεμιμοῦντο, τήν τε ἀνάτασιν τοῦ αὐχένοσ εἰσ εὐώνυμον ἡσυχῇ κεκλιμένου καὶ Τὴν ὑγρότητα τῶν ὀμμάτων, διατετήρηκεν ἀκριβῶσ ὁ τεχνίτησ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 4 1:2)
  • 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)

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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