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ἔγκειμαι?

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: enkeimai

Principal Part: ἔγκειμαι ἔγκείσομαι

Structure: ἐγ (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as Pass. of ἐντίθημι

Sense

  1. to lie in, be wrapped in, clothes
  2. to be involved in
  3. to press upon, pressing upon, was, urgent, he insists
  4. to be devoted to

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

  • ἰὼ δμωαί, δυσθρηνήτοις ὡς θρήνοις ἔγκειμαι, τᾶς οὐκ εὐμούσου μολπᾶς βοὰν ἀλύροις ἐλέγοις, αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ, κηδείοις οἴκτοισιν: (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:1)
  • οἷς δ ἔγκειμαι μόχθοις, Φοίβῳ δουλεύσω, κοὐ λήξω τοὺς βόσκοντας θεραπεύων. (Euripides, Ion, choral, anapests22)
  • τήν τ ἀθλίαν ἔμ, οἷσιν ἔγκειμαι κακοῖς, ῥῦσαι, πάρεργον δοῦσα τοῦτο τῆς τύχης: (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 8:15)
  • εἶπε καὶ ἀγροιῶτις ἀλαθέα κοσκινόμαντις, ἁ πρᾶν ποιολογεῦσα Παραιβάτις, οὕνεκ ἐγὼ μὲν τὶν ὅλος ἔγκειμαι, τὺ δέ μευ λόγον οὐδένα ποιῇ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)
  • Δύστηνος ἔγκειμαι πόθῳ ἄψυχος, χαλεπῇσι θεῶν ὀδύνῃσιν ἕκητι πεπαρμένος δι ὀστέων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 315)

Synonyms

  1. to be involved in

  2. to press upon

  3. to be devoted to

Derived

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

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