Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιμέμφομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιμέμφομαι ἐπιμέμψομαι

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

Sense

  1. to cast blame upon, to find fault for or because, complain of, complains, to find fault, complain
  2. to impute as matter of blame

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

  • οὐδὲ τῶν νῦν συγγενὴσ οὐδείσ, ἀλλὰ Κικέρων ἐπιμέμφεται καὶ φόνου κατηγορῶν πολέμιον κοινὸν ἀντὶ τῶν ὡρισμένων ἐπιτιμίων τοῖσ φονεῦσι τίθεται. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 8 8:6)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν ἢ ἱερῆα ἢ καὶ ὀνειροπόλον, καὶ γάρ τ’ ὄναρ ἐκ Διόσ ἐστιν, ὅσ κ’ εἴποι ὅ τι τόσσον ἐχώσατο Φοῖβοσ Ἀπόλλων, εἴτ’ ἄρ’ ὅ γ’ εὐχωλῆσ ἐπιμέμφεται ἠδ’ ἑκατόμβησ, αἴ κέν πωσ ἀρνῶν κνίσησ αἰγῶν τε τελείων βούλεται ἀντιάσασ ἡμῖν ἀπὸ λοιγὸν ἀμῦναι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 8:6)
  • οὔ τ’ ἄρ ὅ γ’ εὐχωλῆσ ἐπιμέμφεται οὐδ’ ἑκατόμβησ, ἀλλ’ ἕνεκ’ ἀρητῆροσ ὃν ἠτίμησ’ Ἀγαμέμνων, οὐδ’ ἀπέλυσε θύγατρα καὶ οὐκ ἀπεδέξατ’ ἄποινα, τοὔνεκ’ ἄρ’ ἄλγε’ ἔδωκεν ἑκηβόλοσ ἠδ’ ἔτι δώσει· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 13:2)
  • Δικαίαρχοσ δὲ καὶ τὸν τρόπον τῆσ γραφῆσ ὅλον ἐπιμέμφεται ὡσ φορτικόν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 37:3)
  • οὐδὲ ἐπιμέμφεταί σοι τῆσ δόσεωσ τῶν νεῶν, ἃσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν Καίσαρι ἔδωκασ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ, ἀντιλαβεῖν στρατὸν ἐσ Παρθυαίουσ δεόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπομιμνήσκει, τὸν οὐ πεμφθέντα στρατὸν προφέρων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 14 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. to cast blame upon

Derived

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

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