Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἔκκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκκειμαι

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

Sense

  1. to be cast out or exposed
  2. to be set up in public, posted up
  3. to fall from out, be left bare of

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

  • εἶτα χολὴν μὲν ἔχει ζῷα τὰ φαυλότατα, ἐκκεῖσθαι δ’ ἐμὲ πᾶσι χολὴν μὴ ἔχοντα κελεύεισ, ὡσ μηδὲ ψιλοῖσ ῥήμασιν ἀνταδικεῖν τοὺσ ἔργοισ ἀδικοῦντασ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 492)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τὸν σύμβουλον τὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸν ἄξιον προεστάναι πόλεώσ φημι δεῖν πρὸσ ἅπαντα μὲν ἁπλῶσ παρεσκευάσθαι τὰ δοκοῦντα δυσχερῆ, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸσ τὰσ λοιδορίασ καὶ τὴν τοῦ πλήθουσ ὀργήν, καὶ ταῖσ ἄκραισ ὅμοιον ταῖσ ποιούσαισ τοὺσ λιμένασ, αἵτινεσ ἅπασαν ἐκδέχονται τὴν βίαν τῆσ θαλάττησ, τὸ δὲ ἐντὸσ ἀκίνητον καὶ γαληνὸν φυλάττουσι, κἀκεῖνον ἐκκεῖσθαι τῷ δήμῳ, κἂν ὀργισθῆναί ποτε θέλῃ κἂν κακῶσ εἰπεῖν κἂν ὁτιοῦν ποιῆσαι, πάσχειν δὲ μηδὲν ὑπὸ τῶν τοιούτων θορύβων, μήτε ἂν ἐπαινῆται, διὰ τοῦτο ἐπαίρεσθαι, μήτε ἂν ὑβρίζεσθαι δοκῇ, ταπεινοῦσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 43:1)
  • διόπερ παντάπασιν ἔφευγον οἱ κτίσται τὴν θάλατταν ἢ προεβάλλοντο ἐρύματα πρὸ αὐτῆσ, ὥστε μὴ λάφυρον ἕτοιμον ἐκκεῖσθαι τοῖσ ἐπιπλεύσασιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 12:9)
  • ὅμωσ δ’ οὖν ἐν τοῖσ τῆσ Σικελίασ τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ πρὸσ νότον κειμένησ ἡ Πελωριὰσ ἀρκτικωτάτη λέγοιτ’ ἂν καλῶσ τῶν τριῶν γωνιῶν, ὥσθ’ ἡ ἐπιζευγνυμένη ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ ἐπὶ τὸν Πάχυνον, ὃν ἐκκεῖσθαι πρὸσ ἑώ ἔφαμεν, ἅμα πρὸσ ἄρκτον βλέπουσα ποιήσει τὴν πλευρὰν τὴν πρὸσ τὸν πορθμόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 2:26)

Synonyms

  1. to be cast out or exposed

Derived

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

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