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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

  • 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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