Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπικτάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικτάομαι ἐπικτήσομαι

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

Sense

  1. to gain or win besides

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

  • πότερον αὔξειν τοῖσ γάμοισ βουλόμενοι τὰσ οἰκειότητασ καὶ συγγενεῖσ πολλοὺσ ἐπικτᾶσθαι, διδόντεσ ἑτέροισ καὶ λαμβάνοντεσ παρ’ ἑτέρων γυναῖκασ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 1082)
  • καὶ συγγενεῖσ πολλοὺσ ἐπικτᾶσθαι, διδόντεσ ἑτέροισ καὶ λαμβάνοντεσ παρ’ ἑτέρων γυναῖκασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 108 1:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ τριήρεισ κέκτησθε πολλάσ, καὶ πάτριον ὑμῖν ἐστι ναυτικὸν ἐπικτᾶσθαι. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 5:4)
  • δίνῃ τε φερόμενον αὐτὸν ὧν ἂν ἐπιψαύοῃ, ταῦτα ἐπικτᾶσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. s'. LEUKIPPOS 3:5)
  • ὅτι δ’ αὐτὸσ οὗτοσ ἀνὴρ Περικλῆσ ὁ ταῦτα πείθων κἀκεῖνο συνέπειθεν, ἀρχὴν μὴ ἐπικτᾶσθαι παρὰ τὸν πόλεμον, τοῦτο οὐ βούλονται μεμνῆσθαι, πάντων μάλιστα εἰκὸσ ὄν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:14)

Synonyms

  1. to gain or win besides

Derived

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

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