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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

  • καὶ ταῦτα παρακαλέσαντες τὰς Μούσας συνῳδοὺς ἐν ἀρχῇ τῶν ἐπῶν, ὑφ ὧν δὴ ἔνθεοι γενόμενοι, ὡς τὸ εἰκός, ᾅδουσιν ὡς ὁ μὲν Κρόνος ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα ἐξέτεμε τὸν πατέρα τὸν Οὐρανόν, ἐβασίλευσέν τε ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ τέκνα κατήσθιεν ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀργεῖος Θυέστης ὕστερον: (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 5:2)
  • Τοῦτο μὲν οὖν, ὦ θαυμαστὲ Ἡσίοδε, καὶ πάνυ ποιμενικὸν εἴρηταί σοι καὶ ἐπαληθεύειν ἐοίκας τὴν τῶν Μουσῶν ἐπίπνοιαν αὐτὸς οὐδ᾿ ἀπολογεῖσθαι ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπῶν δυνάμενος, ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐ ταύτην τὴν μαντικὴν παρὰ σοῦ καὶ τῶν Μουσῶν περιεμένομεν: (Lucian, 11:1)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἤρξατο ᾄδειν οὐ πάνυ αἴσιόν τινα ᾠδὴν τοῖς πλέουσιν, ὡς ὁ Ποσειδῶν συνήγαγε τὰς νεφέλας καὶ ἐτάραξε τὸν πόντον ὥσπερ τορύνην τινὰ ἐμβαλὼν τὴν τρίαιναν καὶ πάσας τὰς θυέλλας ὠρόθυνε καὶ ἄλλα πολλά, κυκῶν τὴν θάλατταν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπῶν, χειμὼν ἄφνω καὶ γνόφος ἐμπεσὼν ὀλίγου δεῖν περιέτρεψεν ἡμῖν τὴν ναῦν ὅτε περ καὶ ναυτιάσας ἐκεῖνος ἀπήμεσε τῶν ῥαψῳδιῶν τὰς πολλὰς αὐτῇ Σκύλλῃ καὶ Χαρύβδει καὶ Κύκλωπι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 7:15)
  • ἀποπνίξεις γὰρ εὖ οἶδ ὅτι τὸν Ὅμηρον κατελθὼν ἐπὶ τῇ μεγαληγορίᾳ τῶν ἐπῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 23:10)
  • ἀνεμνήσθην ἐκείνων τῶν Ὁμήρου ἐπῶν, ἐν οἷς πεποίησαι αὐτῷ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τῶν θεῶν δημηγορῶν, ὁπότε ἠπείλεις αὐτοῖς ὡς ἀπὸ σειρᾶς τινος χρυσῆς ἀναρτησόμενος τὰ πάντα: (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 4:4)

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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