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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

  • πλοῦτοσ δὲ τίμιον μέν, ἀλλὰ τύχησ κτῆμα, ἐπειδὴ τῶν μὲν ἐχόντων πολλάκισ ἀφείλετο, τοῖσ δ’ οὐκ ἐλπίσασι φέρουσα προσήνεγκε, καὶ ὁ πολὺσ πλοῦτοσ σκοπὸσ ἔκκειται τοῖσ βουλομένοισ βαλλάντια τοξεύειν, κακούργοισ οἰκέταισ καὶ συκοφάνταισ, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον, ὅτι καὶ τοῖσ πονηροτάτοισ μέτεστι. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 8 2:2)
  • "ὄνομα μόνον καὶ δόκημα νυκτερωπὸν ἐννύχων" σοφιστῶν οὐδ’ ὥσπερ ἡ κακία πᾶσιν ῦπαρ ἔκκειται καὶ πᾶσιν ἐναργὴσ· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 15 4:4)
  • ἐνίοτε γὰρ ὁ μὲν σκοπὸσ ἔκκειται καλῶσ, ἐν δὲ τῷ πράττειν τοῦ τυχεῖν αὐτοῦ διαμαρτάνουσιν, ὁτὲ δὲ τῶν μὲν πρὸσ τὸ τέλοσ πάντων ἐπιτυγχάνουσιν, ἀλλὰ τὸ τέλοσ ἔθεντο φαῦλον, ὁτὲ δὲ ἑκατέρου διαμαρτάνουσιν, οἱο͂ν περὶ ἰατρικήν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 201:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἄλλο ἢ διαπρέπει ἐν αὐτῷ ὡσ πορφύρα καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ δὲ καλὸν παράδειγμα ἔκκειται; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 22:3)
  • παράδειγμα δὲ καὶ τούτου καθάπερ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἔκκειται ἡμῖν ὁ βίοσ ὁ Σωκράτουσ, ὃσ οὐ μόνον αὐτὸσ πανταχοῦ ἐξέφυγεν μάχην, ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ἄλλουσ μάχεσθαι εἰά. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 2:1)

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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