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ἐπιμελέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιμελέομαι

Structure: ἐπιμελέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take care of, have charge of, have the management of, to take care that . ., to give heed, attend
  2. to be curator of

Conjugation

Present 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

  • τοῦτο δὴ τοίνυν κατανοήσαντεσ ἐπιμελούμεθα μέν, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, καὶ τοῦ σώματοσ τῆσ πόλεωσ, κατακοσμοῦντεσ αὐτὸ ὡσ κάλλιστον ἡμῖν εἰή, ἔνδοθὲν τε οἰκοδομήμασιν κατεσκευασμένον καὶ ταῖσ ἔκτοσθεν ταύταισ περιβολαῖσ εἰσ τὸ ἀσφαλέστατον πεφραγμένον. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 20:4)
  • οὔτοι τὰ χρήματ’ ἴδια κέκτηνται βροτοί, τὰ τῶν θεῶν δ’ ἔχοντεσ ἐπιμελούμεθα· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 11:8)
  • διὸ καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων λέγειν χρὴ τὰ τῶν θεῶν δ’ ἔχοντεσ ἐπιμελούμεθα. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 28 4:2)
  • εἴ τι πάθοι καὶ τὰ τῆσ τύχησ ἡμῖν, ἥπερ ἀεὶ βέλτιον ἢ ἡμεῖσ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιμελούμεθα, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐξεργάσαιτο, ἴσθ’ ὅτι πλησίον μὲν ὄντεσ, ἅπασιν ἂν τοῖσ πράγμασιν τεταραγμένοισ ἐπιστάντεσ ὅπωσ βούλεσθε διοικήσαισθε, ὡσ δὲ νῦν ἔχετε, οὐδὲ διδόντων τῶν καιρῶν Ἀμφίπολιν δέξασθαι δύναισθ’ ἄν, ἀπηρτημένοι καὶ ταῖσ παρασκευαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ γνώμαισ. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 14:2)
  • >ἆρ’ οὖν ὅταν ὑποδημάτων ἐπιμελώμεθα, τότε ποδῶν ἐπιμελούμεθα; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 153:2)

Synonyms

  1. to take care of

Derived

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

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