Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔπειμι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπειμι ἐπιείσομαι

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

Etym.: ei)=mi 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

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

  • ὁ δ’ ἀθανάτων μὴ θρασσέτω φθόνοσ, ὅ τι τερπνὸν ἐφάμερον διώκων ἕκαλοσ ἔπειμι γῆρασ ἔσ τε τὸν μόρσιμον αἰῶνα. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 7 12:4)
  • ἀνστῆσαι γὰρ ἔπειμι καὶ ἐξ Ἐρέβευσ φίλον ἁμόν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 40 6:1)
  • Νῦν αὖτ’ ἄλλον ἔπειμι λόγον, δείξω δὲ κέλευθον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 44)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦ τοι μὲν ἐγὼ πολυδένδρεον ἀγρὸν ἔπειμι, ὀψόμενοσ πατέρ’ ἐσθλόν, ὅ μοι πυκινῶσ ἀκάχηται· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 23 39:4)
  • περὶ δὲ τοῦ ἄλλοτ’ ἄλλον αὐτὸν γεγενῆσθαι Ξενοφάνησ ἐν ἐλεγείᾳ προσμαρτυρεῖ, ἧσ ἀρχή, νῦν αὖτ’ ἄλλον ἔπειμι λόγον, δείξω δὲ κέλευθον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 36:4)

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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