Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπεύχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπεύχομαι ἐπεύξομαι

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

Sense

  1. to pray or make a vow, to pray to, that . ., to pray for
  2. to imprecate, upon, to utter imprecations
  3. to glory over
  4. to boast that

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

  • ὄλοιθ’ ὃσ πόλει μεγάλ’ ἐπεύχεται, κεραυνοῦ δέ νιν βέλοσ ἐπισχέθοι, πρὶν ἐμὸν ἐσθορεῖν δόμον, πωλικῶν θ’ ἑδωλίων ὑπερκόπῳ δορί ποτ’ ἐκλαπάξαι. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • τὸ φῦλον οὐκ ὄπωπα τῆσδ’ ὁμιλίασ οὐδ’ ἥτισ αἰᾶ τοῦτ’ ἐπεύχεται γένοσ τρέφουσ’ ἀνατεὶ μὴ μεταστένειν πόνον. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 5:8)
  • ‐ ὅστισ τάδ’ ἄλλωσ τῇδ’ ἐπεύχεται πόλει, αὐτὸσ φρενῶν καρποῖτο τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode4)
  • ὡσ δὲ φάρμακον τεύχουσα κἀμοῦ μισθὸν ἐνθήσειν κότῳ ἐπεύχεται, θήγουσα φωτὶ φάσγανον ἐμῆσ ἀγωγῆσ ἀντιτείσασθαι φόνον. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 2:18)
  • κἄπειτ’ ἐπιγνοὺσ ἔργον οὐ καταίσιον ᾤμωξεν, ἀμπίπτει δ’ ἀπὸ σφαγὴν ἐρῶν, μόρον δ’ ἄφερτον Πελοπίδαισ ἐπεύχεται, λάκτισμα δείπνου ξυνδίκωσ τιθεὶσ ἀρᾷ, οὕτωσ ὀλέσθαι πᾶν τὸ Πλεισθένουσ γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:14)

Synonyms

  1. to pray or make a vow

  2. to imprecate

  3. to glory over

  4. to boast that

Related

Derived

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

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