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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

  • ἀλλ’ οἶμαι μέν, ἔφη, ὦ Κῦρε, οὐδὲ διανοούμενόν σε ὡσ δεῖ ἴσον ἔχειν τοὺσ κακοὺσ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἐμβαλεῖν τοῦτον τὸν λόγον, ἀλλ’ ἀποπειρώμενον εἴ τισ ἄρα ἔσται ἀνὴρ ὅστισ ἐθελήσει ἐπιδεῖξαι ἑαυτὸν ὡσ διανοεῖται μηδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν ποιῶν, ἃ ἂν ἄλλοι τῇ ἀρετῇ καταπράξωσι, τούτων ἰσομοιρεῖν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 7:2)

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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