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ἐπιψεύδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιψεύδομαι

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

Sense

  1. to lie still more
  2. to attribute falsehood to
  3. to falsify

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

  • ὁ μὲν οὖν κόλαξ ἅτε τῆσ χρείασ ἕνεκα τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπαινῶν, ἀληθείασ δὲ ὀλίγην ποιούμενοσ τὴν πρόνοιαν, ἅπαντα ὑπερεπαινεῖν οἰέται δεῖν, ἐπιψευδόμενοσ καὶ προστιθεὶσ παρ’ αὑτοῦ τὰ πλείω, ὡσ μὴ ἂν ὀκνῆσαι καὶ τὸν Θερσίτην εὐμορφότερον ἀποφῆναι τοῦ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ τὸν Νέστορα φάναι τῶν ἐπὶ Ἴλιον στρατευσάντων τὸν νεώτατον εἶναι. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 20:3)
  • ὥσπερ Ἀριστόβουλοσ μονομαχίαν γράψασ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Πώρου, καὶ ἀναγνόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦτο μάλιστα τὸ χωρίον τῆσ γραφῆσ ‐ ᾤετο γὰρ χαριεῖσθαι τὰ μέγιστα τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπιψευδομενοσ ἀριστείασ τινὰσ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναπλάττων ἔργα μείζω τῆσ ἀληθείασ ‐ λαβὼν ἐκεῖνοσ τὸ βιβλίον ‐ πλέοντεσ δὲ ἐτύγχανον ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Ὑδάσπῃ ‐ ἔρριψεν ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπειπών, Καὶ σὲ δὲ οὕτωσ ἐχρῆν, ὦ Ἀριστόβουλε, τοιαῦτα ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ μονομαχοῦντα καὶ ἐλέφαντασ ἑνὶ ἀκοντίῳ φονεύοντα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 123)

Synonyms

  1. to lie still more

  2. to falsify

Derived

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

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