Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

διαμιλλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαμιλλάομαι διαμιλλήσομαι διημιλλήθην

Structure: δι (Prefix) + ἁμιλλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to contend hotly, strive earnestly

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • τούτουσ τοὺσ λόγουσ ὑπόθεσιν λαβόντεσ οἱ φθονεροὶ καὶ κακοήθεισ διημιλλῶντο ταῖσ ἐπιστολαῖσ ἀλλήλοισ, πολλὰ καὶ δυσχερῆ κατὰ τοῦ Ἀράτου τῷ Πτολεμαίῳ γράφοντεσ, ὥστε κἀκεῖνον ἐγκαλοῦντα πέμψαι. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 15 3:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ἐπανελθὼν ἀνεῦρε καὶ διεδόθη λόγοσ ὑπὲρ τούτου, πολλοὶ τῶν εὐφυῶν ὑπόθεσιν λαβόντεσ εἰσ τὸ ἀδωροδόκητον τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ διημιλλῶντο τοῖσ ἐπιγράμμασι. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 31 2:1)
  • συνέθυε δὲ καὶ πόλισ πᾶσα βοῦν πέμπουσα, καὶ βασιλεῖσ διημιλλῶντο ταῖσ ὑποδοχαῖσ καὶ δωρεαῖσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 56 5:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ μικρὰν ῥοπὴν ὁρῶντεσ οὖσαν ἑκάτεροι προσλαβέσθαι τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων εὔνοιαν διημιλλῶντο πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ περὶ τῆσ εἰσ τούτουσ εὐεργεσίασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 62 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contend hotly

Derived

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

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