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ἐπιπείθομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: epipeithomai

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 οἱο῀ν 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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