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ἐπιπείθομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπείθομαι ἐπιπείσω

Structure: ἐπιπείθ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be persuaded to
  2. to trust to, put faith in
  3. to comply with, obey

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

  • μαρτυρίοισι γὰρ τοῖσδ’ ἐπιπείθομαι· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • ὅσ κε θεοῖσ ἐπιπείθηται μάλα τ’ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 24:4)
  • ἄλλοι μὲν γὰρ πάντεσ ὅσοι θεοί εἰσ’ ἐν Ὀλύμπῳ σοί τ’ ἐπιπείθονται καὶ δεδμήμεσθα ἕκαστοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 90:7)
  • μηδαμῶσ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ καλοί τε καὶ ἀγαθοὶ, ἀλλ’ ἐνθυμηθέντεσ τὸ πάλαι τοῦτο ᾀδόμενον, ὅτι τῶν μὲν ἡμαρτημένων ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν οὐκ ἔστ’ ἀνελεῖν οὐδὲν, ἀλλ’ ἔχει πέρασ οἱο͂ν ὁ καιρὸσ ἤνεγκεν, ἀκεσταὶ δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν φρένεσ, ὡσ ὁ τῶν Ῥοδίων φησὶν ἐπαινέτησ, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἀναμαρτήτουσ φῦναι θεῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ γῆσ οὐδεὶσ ἀναμάρτητοσ, τὸ δὲ τοῖσ εὖ λέγουσιν ἐθελῆσαι πεισθῆναι πρέπον ὑμῖν καὶ τῷ θεῷ μάλιστ’ ἂν οὕτω χαρίζεσθαι νομίσαντεσ, ᾧ τὸ ῥῆμα τοῦθ’ ὁ ποιητὴσ καθιέρωκεν ὄντι θαλαττίῳ, ὅσ κε θεοῖσ ἐπιπείθηται, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ λυσιτελέστερον μὲν εἶναι δουλεύειν ἢ κακῶν ἐφόδιον τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἔχειν, ὅμωσ δ’ εἶναι δέοσ μὴ καὶ τούτου στερηθῆτε· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:8)

Synonyms

  1. to be persuaded to

  2. to trust to

  3. to comply with

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

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