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

  • τὸν δ’ ὑπακοῦσαι προθύμωσ, οἰόμενον οὕτωσ ἔσεσθαι βελτίονα τὴν ἐπανόρθωσιν ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐμελέτησε, τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ ἐκπεπλῆχθαι καὶ διαμιλλᾶσθαι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τοῖσ ἐπαίνοισ, τὸν δ’ Ἀπολλώνιον οὔτ’ ἀκροώμενον αὐτοῦ διαχυθῆναι καὶ παυσαμένου σύννουν καθέζεσθαι πολὺν χρόνον, ἀχθομένου δὲ τοῦ Κικέρωνοσ εἰπεῖν· (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 4 4:1)
  • Σαβίνουσ δὲ τουτουσὶ ἔθνοσ τηλικοῦτον, οἷσ διὰ παντὸσ ὁ περὶ τῶν πρωτείων πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ ἦν ἀγών, ποία παρέσχεν ὑμῖν βοήθεια μηκέτι διαμιλλᾶσθαι περὶ τῶν ἴσων; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 75 4:4)
  • τὰσ δὲ δὴ σκιὰσ ἐκείνασ πάλιν εἰ δέοι αὐτὸν γνωματεύοντα διαμιλλᾶσθαι τοῖσ ἀεὶ δεσμώταισ ἐκείνοισ, ἐν ᾧ ἀμβλυώττει, πρὶν καταστῆναι τὰ ὄμματα, οὗτοσ δ’ ὁ χρόνοσ μὴ πάνυ ὀλίγοσ εἰή τῆσ συνηθείασ, ἆρ’ οὐ γέλωτ’ ἂν παράσχοι, καὶ λέγοιτο ἂν περὶ αὐτοῦ ὡσ ἀναβὰσ ἄνω διεφθαρμένοσ ἥκει τὰ ὄμματα, καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἄξιον οὐδὲ πειρᾶσθαι ἄνω ἰέναι; (Plato, Republic, book 7 49:1)

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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