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ἐπιγίγνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγίγνομαι ἐπιγενήσομαι ἐπεγενόμην ἐπιγέγονα

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + γίγν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be born after, come into being after, other, come on, posterity, who came after, the following, went on
  2. to come upon, be incident to, seconded, each in succession
  3. to come in after, to come upon, assault, attack
  4. to befall, come to pass

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

  • "δεύτερον δὲ καὶ σωμάτων ἤνεγκε κράσεισ καὶ φύσεισ ὁ χρόνοσ ἐκεῖνοσ εὔρουν τι καὶ φορὸν ἐχούσασ πρὸσ ποίησιν, αἷσ εὐθὺσ ἐπεγίγνοντο προθυμίαι καὶ ὁρμαὶ καὶ παρασκευαὶ ψυχῆσ ἑτοιμότητα ποιοῦσαι μικρᾶσ ἔξωθεν ἀρχῆσ καὶ παρατροπῆσ τοῦ φανταστικοῦ δεομένην, ὡσ εὐθὺσ ἕλκεσθαι πρὸσ τὸ οἰκεῖον μόνον, ὡσ λέγει Φιλῖνοσ, ἀστρολόγουσ καὶ φιλοσόφουσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν οἴνῳ τε πολλῷ καὶ πάθει γιγνομένων, οἴκτου τινοσ ὑπορρυέντοσ ἢ χαρᾶσ προσπεσούσησ, ὠλίσθανον εἰσ ἐνῳδὸν γῆρυν ἐρωτικῶν τε κατεπίμπλαντο μέτρων καὶ ᾀσμάτων τὰ συμπόσια καὶ τὰ βιβλία γραμμάτων. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 234)
  • Ῥωμαίοισ δὲ ὁ μὲν ἐπίπλουσ ἦν ῥᾴδιοσ καὶ τὸ μάχεσθαι ναυσὶν ἑστώσαισ εὐμαρέσ, αἱ δ’ ἀναχωρήσεισ δι’ ἀναστροφὴν τῶν νεῶν, μακρῶν οὐσῶν, βραδεῖαί τε καὶ δυσχερεῖσ ἐπεγίγνοντο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 7:6)
  • Μιλτιάδησ δὲ καὶ οἱ εἰσ ἐκεῖνον οὐ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ εἶχον διὰ τέλουσ, ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ἐπεγίγνοντο δήπουθεν, οἱ δὲ ἀπεγίγνοντο, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἀπεφοίτων παρ’ αὐτῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 124:10)

Synonyms

  1. to come in after

  2. to befall

Derived

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

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