Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "ἀτάκτωσ τε οὖν καὶ κατὰ κέρασ, ᾗπερ ἀσθενέστατον, ἐκβαίνουσιν ἐπικείσονται ἐσ φάλαγγα ξυντεταγμένοι τῶν πολεμίων οἱ ἱππεῖσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 13 3:6)
  • οἱ δὲ κατὰ στόμα δὴ ἔτι μόνοι ἐλύπουν καὶ δῆλοι ἦσαν ὅτι ἐπικείσονται ἐν τῇ ἐξόδῳ τε καὶ καταβάσει. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 28:2)
  • ἅλισ δὲ κακῶν ἕξουσι καὶ χωρὶσ ἡμῶν, οἷσ οἵ τε περίοικοι πάντεσ ἐπικείσονται δυσμεναίνοντεσ τῆσ ποτὲ βίασ, καὶ Μασσανάσσησ, ἀνὴρ πιστότατοσ ἡμῖν, ἐφεδρεύσει παρὼν ἀεί. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 6:9)
  • ἀντιλεγόντων δὲ κατὰ ζῆλον αὐτοῦ τῶν ἑτέρων χιλιάρχων, καὶ μαλακίαν καὶ οὐκ εὐβουλίαν ἡγουμένων εἰ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἰδόντεσ ἀναχωρήσουσιν, ἐν ᾧ καὶ καταφρονοῦντεσ φεύγουσιν ἐπικείσονται, δεύτερα τούτων ἠξίου στρατόπεδον πρὸ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ ἐγεῖραι, ἵν’ εἰ βιασθεῖεν, ἔχοιεν ἀναχώρησιν, οὐκ ὄντοσ αὐτοῖσ νῦν οὐδ’ ὅποι καταφεύγοιεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 2:3)

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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