Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπαράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαράομαι ἐπαράσομαι ἐπήραμαι

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

Sense

  1. to imprecate curses upon, to utter an imprecation

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο τὸ πρᾶγμα ὡσ ἐπῄρατο χεῖρασ ἐπὶ βασιλέα Σαλωμών. καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺσ Σαλωμὼν ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν ἄκραν, συνέκλεισε τὸν φραγμὸν τῆσ πόλεωσ Δαυὶδ τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 11:23)
  • ἄλλων δὲ δημάρχων οὐκ ἐώντων, ὁ μὲν ὑπηρέτησ ἀφῆκε τὸν Κράσσον, ὁ δ’ Ἀτήιοσ προδραμὼν ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην ἔθηκεν ἐσχαρίδα καιομένην, καὶ τοῦ Κράσσου γενομένου κατ’ αὐτήν ἐπιθυμιῶν καὶ κατασπένδων ἀρὰσ ἐπηρᾶτο δεινὰσ μὲν αὐτὰσ καὶ φρικώδεισ, δεινοὺσ δέ τινασ θεοὺσ καὶ ἀλλοκότουσ ἐπ’ αὐταῖσ καλῶν καὶ ὀνομάζων ταύτασ φασὶ Ῥωμαῖοι τὰσ ἀρὰσ ἀποθέτουσ καὶ παλαιὰσ τοιαύτην ἔχειν δύναμιν ὡσ περιφυγεῖν μηδένα τῶν ἐνσχεθέντων αὐταῖσ, κακῶσ δὲ πράσσειν καὶ τὸν χρησάμενον, ὅθεν οὐκ ἐπὶ τοῖσ τυχοῦσιν αὐτὰσ οὐδ’ ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἀρᾶσθαι. (Plutarch, chapter 16 5:1)
  • ἀνδρὶ γὰρ μεγάλῳ καὶ ῥωμαλέῳ φεύγοντι παρ’ αὑτόν ἐπιβαλὼν τὴν χεῖρα μένειν ἐκέλευσε καί στρέφεσθαι πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ὁ δὲ μεστὸσ ὢν ταραχῆσ παρὰ τὸ δεινόν ἐπήρατο τὴν μάχαιραν ὡσ καθιξόμενοσ, φθάνει δὲ ὁ τοῦ Καίσαροσ ὑπασπιστὴσ ἀποκόψασ αὐτοῦ τὸν ὦμον. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 39 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. to imprecate curses upon

Derived

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

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