Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπαισχύνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαισχύνομαι ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + αἰσχύν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be ashamed at or of, to be ashamed, to be ashamed 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

  • Ἀθηναίουσ τοίνυν καὶ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων Ιὤνων ἐπαισχύνεσθαι τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ, μὴ βουλομένουσ ἀλλὰ φεύγοντασ Ιὤνασ κεκλῆσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ νομίζοντασ αὐτῶν γενναιοτάτουσ εἶναι καὶ ὁρμηθέντασ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρυτανηίου τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐκ βαρβάρων παιδοποιήσασθαι γυναικῶν, πατέρασ αὐτῶν καὶ ἄνδρασ καὶ παῖδασ φονεύσαντασ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 192)
  • ἆρ’ ὧδ’ ἄριστοσ ἐξ ἀριστέοιν δυοῖν βλαστὼν ἂν αἰσχύνοιμι τοὺσ πρὸσ αἵματοσ, οὓσ νῦν σὺ τοιοῖσδ’ ἐν πόνοισι κειμένουσ ὠθεῖσ ἀθάπτουσ, οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνει λέγων; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:8)
  • οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνει μ’ ὁρῶν τὸν προστρόπαιον, τὸν ἱκέτην, ὦ σχέτλιε; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:2)
  • τί τὴν ἄβουλον, ὦ ταλαίπωροι, στάσιν γλώσσησ ἐπήρασθ’ οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνεσθε γῆσ οὕτω νοσούσησ ἴδια κινοῦντεσ κακά; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:1)
  • μητρὸσ δέ, τλῆμον, οὐκ ἐπαισχύνει γάμουσ οὔσησ ὁμαίμου σῆσ μ’ ἀναγκάζων λέγειν, οἱούσ ἐρῶ τάχ’· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 6:7)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπαισχύνομαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, δύναμισ γὰρ θεοῦ ἐστὶν εἰσ σωτηρίαν παντὶ τῷ πιστεύοντι, Ιοὐδαίῳ τε [πρῶτον] καὶ Ἕλληνι· (PROS RWMAIOUS, chapter 1 18:1)
  • δι’ ἣν αἰτίαν καὶ ταῦτα πάσχω, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐπαισχύνομαι, οἶδα γὰρ ᾧ πεπίστευκα, καὶ πέπεισμαι ὅτι δυνατόσ ἐστιν τὴν παραθήκην μου φυλάξαι εἰσ ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν. (PROS TIMOQEON B, chapter 1 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be ashamed at or of

Derived

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

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