Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἀποπειράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποπειράομαι

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

Sense

  1. to make trial, essay, proof of, to make an attempt on

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

  • γελάσασ ὁ Ἐργῖνοσ τότε μὲν ὡμολόγησεν ἀποπειρᾶσθαι τοῦ Διοκλέουσ τοῖσ γὰρ ἄλλοισ ἀδελφοῖσ μὴ πάνυ τι πιστεύειν, ὀλίγαισ δὲ ὕστερον ἡμέραισ ἐπανελθὼν συντίθεται τὸν Ἄρατον ἄξειν πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ, ὅπου τὸ ὕψοσ οὐ μεῖζον ἦν πεντεκαίδεκα ποδῶν, καὶ τἆλλα συμπράξειν μετὰ τοῦ Διοκλέουσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 18 4:1)
  • ὡσ οὖν ταῦθ’ ὁ Λούκουλλοσ ᾔσθετο, Τιγράνην μὲν ἔγνω καὶ Μιθριδάτην παρελθεῖν ὥσπερ ἀνταγωνιστὰσ ἀπειρηκότασ, ἀποπειρᾶσθαι δὲ τῆσ Πάρθων δυνάμεωσ καὶ στρατεύειν ἐπ’ αὐτούσ, καλὸν ἡγούμενοσ μιᾷ ῥύμῃ πολέμου τρεῖσ ἐφεξῆσ ὥσπερ ἀθλητὴσ βασιλεῖσ καταπαλαῖσαι καὶ διὰ τριῶν τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον μεγίστων ἡγεμονιῶν ἀήττητοσ καὶ νικῶν διεξελθεῖν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 30 2:1)
  • οὐκοῦν χρὴ θεώμενον σαυτοῦ ἀποπειρᾶσθαι εἰ γνώσῃ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 8:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐγὼ οἶμαι, ἔφην, ὦ Πρωταγόρα, τοῦτο λέγειν Σιμωνίδην, καὶ Πρόδικόν γε τόνδε εἰδέναι, ἀλλὰ παίζειν καὶ σοῦ δοκεῖν ἀποπειρᾶσθαι εἰ οἱο͂́σ τ’ ἔσῃ τῷ σαυτοῦ λόγῳ βοηθεῖν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 272:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ Λευκίου πράωσ καὶ ἀφελῶσ εἰπόντοσ, ὡσ ὁ μὲν ἀληθὴσ ἴσωσ λόγοσ καὶ νῦν ἀπόθετοσ καὶ ἀπόρρητοσ εἰή, τοῦ δὲ πιθανοῦ καὶ εἰκότοσ οὐ φθόνοσ ἀποπειρᾶσθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to make trial

Derived

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

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