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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

  • "ἐκεῖνοσ γάρ ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἐπιμεμφόμενοσ τὴν φύσιν εἰσ τὴν ἀπόλαυσιν ηὔξατό ποτε γεράνου τὴν φάρυγγα σχεῖν ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἵππον ὅλωσ ἢ βοῦν ἢ κάμηλον ἢ ἐλέφαντα δεῖ σπουδάζειν γενέσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 102)
  • τὴν κιθάρην Εὔμολποσ ἐπὶ τριπόδων ποτὲ Φοίβῳ ἄνθετο, γηραλέην χεῖρ’ ἐπιμεμφόμενοσ, εἶπε δέ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 831)
  • τούτων δὲ πρότεροσ Πλάτων πανταχοῦ μέμνηται, τὴν μὲν ἡδονὴν καὶ χάριν τὴν τῶν ἐπῶν ἐκπληττόμενοσ, πολλάκισ γε μὴν ἐπιμεμφόμενοσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ θεῶν μύθοισ τε καὶ λόγοισ, ὡσ οὐ συμφέροντα τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ οὐδαμῶσ αὐτὸν εἰρηκότα, πλεονεξίασ καὶ ἐπιβουλὰσ κατ̓ ἀλλήλων καὶ μοιχείασ καὶ ἔριδασ καὶ φιλονικίασ περὶ θεῶν ἐπεξιόντα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ μὲν αὐτῆσ τε Καππαδοκίασ ἕνεκα Ῥωμαίοισ ἐπιμεμφόμενοσ, καὶ Φρυγίαν ἔναγχοσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἀφῃρημένοσ, ὡσ διὰ τῆσ Ἑλληνικῆσ γραφῆσ δεδήλωται, οὐ συνέπραττε· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 4:3)
  • καλούμενοσ δὲ αὖθισ ὡσ ἐπὶ ἕτοιμα καὶ ἀρκοῦντα τὰ Ἀντωνίου, ἑτέρασ ἀσχολίασ προύφερε καὶ δῆλοσ ἦν ἢ αὖθισ ἐπιμεμφόμενόσ τι τῷ Ἀντωνίῳ ἢ τῆσ συμμαχίασ διὰ τὴν εὐπορίαν τὴν οἰκείαν ὑπερορῶν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 10 6:2)

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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