Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐξηγέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξηγέομαι ἐξηγήσομαι

Structure: ἐξ (Prefix) + ἡγέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be leader of, to lead, direct, govern
  2. to go first, lead the way
  3. to shew, the way, go before, lead
  4. to conduct
  5. to lead an army
  6. to prescribe or dictate, to prescribe, order, to prescribe or expound
  7. to tell at length, relate in full

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

  • , Ἀσσυρίων δὲ καὶ Ἀράβων οἱ ἐξηγηταὶ τῶν μύθων, Ἰνδῶν δὲ οἱ καλούμενοι Βραχμᾶνεσ, ἄνδρεσ ἀκριβῶσ φιλοσοφίᾳ σχολάζοντεσ, καὶ οἱ καλούμενοι δὲ μάγοι, γένοσ τοῦτο μαντικὸν καὶ θεοῖσ ἀνακείμενον παρά τε Πέρσαισ καὶ Πάρθοισ καὶ Βάκτροισ καὶ Χωρασμίοισ καὶ Ἀρείοισ καὶ Σάκαισ καὶ Μήδοισ καὶ παρὰ πολλοῖσ ἄλλοισ βαρβάροισ, ἐρρωμένοι τέ εἰσι καὶ πολυχρόνιοι διὰ τὸ μαγεύειν διαιτώμενοι καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀκριβέστερον. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 4:2)
  • καὶ ἦσάν τινεσ ἐξηγηταὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο καθήμενοι καὶ μισθοὺσ οὐκ ὀλίγουσ ἐκλέγοντεσ παρὰ τῶν τοὺσ τοιούτουσ χρησμοὺσ λαμβανόντων ἐπὶ τῇ ἐξηγήσει καὶ διαλύσει αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:4)
  • ἐτέλουν γὰρ οἱ ἐξηγηταὶ τῷ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τάλαντον Ἀττικὸν ἑκάτεροσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:6)
  • καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι δὲ ἐξηγηταὶ ἀπροσδιόνυσά τινα εἰρήκασιν περὶ τοῦ προκειμένου, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐντυχὼν τῷ Μηνοδότου τοῦ Σαμίου συγγράμματι, ὅπερ ἐπιγράφεται Τῶν κατὰ τὴν Σάμον ἐνδόξων ἀναγραφή, εὑρ͂ον τὸ ζητούμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 12 2:2)
  • καὶ τειχίσασ ἀξιολόγωσ τὴν πόλιν καὶ τοὺσ πυλῶνασ κοσμήσασ ἱεροπρεπῶσ προσκατεσκεύασεν τοῖσ πατρικοῖσ βασιλείοισ ἕτερα βασίλεια ἐχόμενα ἐκείνων, [ὑπὲρ] ὧν ἀνάστημα καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν πολυτέλειαν μακρὸν ἴσωσ ἔσται ἐάν τισ ἐξηγῆται, πλὴν ὄντα γε ὑπερβολὴν ὡσ μεγάλα καὶ ὑπερήφανα συνετελέσθη ἡμέραισ δεκαπέντε. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 159:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be leader of

  2. to go first

  3. to shew

  4. to conduct

  5. to lead an army

Derived

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

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