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ἐπίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκειμαι

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be laid upon
  2. to be put to or closed
  3. to be placed in or on
  4. lying off, off the coast
  5. to press upon, be urgent, to press upon
  6. to hang over, imposed
  7. having their, covered, under an assumed

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

  • εἰ δέ τισ ἢ μειδιάσειε πρὸσ τὰ γινόμενα ἢ μὴ φαίνοιτο πάνυ εὐσεβῶν, θάνατοσ ἐπέκειτο ἡ ζημία. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:4)
  • χρόνῳ δὲ ἡ Μέγιλλα ὑπόθερμοσ ἤδη οὖσα τὴν μὲν πηνήκην ἀφείλετο τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, ἐπέκειτο δὲ πάνυ ὁμοία καὶ προσφυήσ, καὶ ἐν χρῷ ὤφθη αὐτὴ καθάπερ οἱ σφόδρα ἀνδρώδεισ τῶν ἀθλητῶν ἀποκεκαρμένη· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:4)
  • ἡ δὲ Μεσσήνη τότε ὑμῖν ἐπέκειτο χὠ θεὸσ σείων ἅμα. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 1:13)
  • "ἐπὶ δὲ τὸν Πτολεμαίου τοῦ Σωτῆροσ θρόνον στέφανοσ ἐπέκειτο ἐκ μυρίων κατεσκευασμένοσ χρυσῶν, ἐπόμπευσε δὲ καὶ θυμιατήρια χρυσᾶ τριακόσια καὶ πεντήκοντα, καὶ βωμοὶ δὲ ἐπίχρυσοι ἐστεφανωμένοι χρυσοῖσ στεφάνοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:6)
  • "τῶν δὲ κιόνων τὰ μὲν σώματα ἦν κυπαρίσσινα, αἱ δὲ κεφαλαὶ Κορινθιουργεῖσ, ἐλέφαντι καὶ χρυσῷ διακεκοσμημέναι, τὸ δὲ ἐπιστύλιον ἐκ χρυσοῦ τὸ ὅλον ἐφ’ οὗ διάζωσμα ἐφήρμοστο περιφανῆ ζῴδια ἔχον ἐλεφάντινα μείζω πηχυαίων, τῇ μὲν τέχνῃ μέτρια, τῇ χορηγίᾳ δὲ ἀξιοθαύμαστα, ἐπέκειτο δὲ καὶ στέγη καλὴ τῷ συμποσίῳ τετράγωνοσ κυπαρισσίνη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3728)

Synonyms

  1. to be laid upon

  2. to be put to or closed

  3. to be placed in or on

  4. to press upon

  5. to hang over

Derived

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

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