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ἔπειμι?

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: epeimi

Principal Part: ἔπειμι ἐπιείσομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + ἔς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: εἶμι ibo

Sense

  1. to come upon
  2. come near, approach
  3. to come or go against, attack, assault, the invaders, assailants, the first comer
  4. to get on the, to come on the stage
  5. to come upon, overtake, to come near, threaten
  6. to come into, occur, what occurs to one
  7. to come on or after, following, succeeding, instant, coming, the consequences, the successor
  8. to go over, to traverse, visit
  9. to go over, count over

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπῆ, ἐπῆν ἐπῆσθα ἐπῆν
Dual ἐπἦστον ἐπήστην
Plural ἐπἦμεν ἐπἦτε ἐπἦσαν

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

  • φησὶν γὰρ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Μελῶν ὁ Μεγίστης δ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνες ἐπείτε στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 11 4:3)
  • ἐπείτε γὰρ Ὀκτάουιος οὐδὲν καταπλαγεὶς αὖθις ἐνίστατο, ὁ δὲ προτέραν τὴν περὶ αὐτοῦ ψῆφον ἀνεδίδου. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 1 6:11)
  • καὶ τοῦ καπήλου, τί δὴ σπουδαιότερον αἰτοίη, πυθομένου, ὁ μὲν θεράπων ἐψιθύρισε τὴν αἰτίαν καὶ πριάμενος ἐπανῆλθεν, ὁ δὲ κάπηλος αὐτίκα ἔθει Μαρίῳ τοῦτο δηλώσων, καὶ ὁ Μάριος, ἐπείτε ἤκουσεν, ὑφ ἡδονῆς ἀνέδραμεν ὡς αὐτὸς ὁρμήσων ἐπὶ τὸ ἔργον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 8 9:3)
  • ἄλογον δ ἤδη καὶ τὸ βιασάμενον ἐς τὴν ἀρχὴν ῥιψοκινδύνως, ἐπείτε ἐγκρατὴς ἐγένετο, ἑκόντα ἀποθέσθαι καὶ παράδοξον, οἱο῀ν οὔπω τι ἕτερον, τὸ μὴ δεῖσαι νεότητος ἐν τῷδε τῷ πολέμῳ πλέον μυριάδων δέκα ἀνῃρημένης καὶ τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτὸν ἀνελόντα βουλευτὰς μὲν ἐνενήκοντα, ὑπάτους δ ἐς πεντεκαίδεκα, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν καλουμένων ἱππέων δισχιλίους καὶ ἑξακοσίους σὺν τοῖς ἐξεληλαμένοις: (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 12 1:5)
  • Πορκία δ, ἡ Βρούτου μὲν γυνή, Κάτωνος δὲ ἀδελφὴ τοῦ νεωτέρου, ἐπείτε ἀμφοῖν ὧδε ἀποθανόντοιν ἐπύθετο, φυλασσομένη πρὸς τῶν οἰκείων πάνυ ἐγκρατῶς, ἐσχάρας πυρὸς ἐνεχθείσης ἁρπάσασα τῶν ἀνθράκων κατέπιεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 17 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. to come upon

  2. come near

  3. to come or go against

  4. to get on the

  5. to come into

  6. to go over

  7. to go over

Derived

Similar forms

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

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