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

  • καὶ ἐπέθηκαν ἐπὶ τὸ λῶμα ὑακίνθυνον, ὥστε ἐπικεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν μίτραν ἄνωθεν, ὃν τρόπον συνέταξε Κύριοσ τῷ Μωυσῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 36:40)
  • ἐπικεῖσθαι δὲ δεῖ μετὰ τῶν ἁλῶν καὶ ὀβολοὺσ ἑπτὰ καὶ θεῖον καὶ δᾷδα. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:4)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ὕβρει τὸν δῆμον ὁρῶν ἤδη πλημμελοῦντα καὶ δι’ εὐτυχίαν καὶ φρόνημα τῇ βουλῇ δυσκάθεκτον ὄντα καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὅλην ὑπὸ δυνάμεωσ ὅπῃ ῥέψειε ταῖσ ὁρμαῖσ βίᾳ συνεφελκόμενον, ἐβούλετο τοῦτον γοῦν τὸν φόβον ὥσπερ χαλινὸν ἐπικεῖσθαι σωφρονιστῆρα τῇ θρασύτητι τῶν πολλῶν, ἔλαττον μὲν ἡγούμενοσ ἰσχύειν Καρχηδονίουσ τοῦ περιγενέσθαι Ῥωμαίων, μεῖζον δὲ τοῦ καταφρονεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 27 2:1)
  • οὐδὲν δὲ κωλύει καὶ τὸν πρῶτον ἔξωθεν ἐπικεῖσθαι φθόγγον, ὥσπερ ἔνιοί φασιν, ἐδιτίων παρὰ τὴν δίαιταν καὶ τὴν ἐδωδὴν λεγομένων, συνήρχοντο δὲ ἀνὰ πεντεκαίδεκα καὶ βραχεῖ τούτων ἐλάττουσ ἢ πλείουσ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 12 1:2)
  • "διὰ τί τῶν ἐπ’ οἰωνοῖσ ἱερέων, οὓσ Αὔσπικασ πρότερον Αὔγουρασ δὲ νῦν καλοῦσιν, ᾤοντο δεῖν ἀεὶ τοὺσ λαμπτῆρασ ἀνεῳγμένουσ εἶναι καὶ τὸ πῶμα μὴ ἐπικεῖσθαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 721)

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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