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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

  • κἂν εἴ τι ἐπιψεύδοιντο ἡμῖν, ἀλλ̓ οἵ γε ἀκούοντεσ ἐπίστευον ἂν ὡσ ἀκριβῶσ εἰδόσιν ἐκ τοῦ συγγεγονέναι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 4 2:3)
  • τί τοιοῦτον, ὦ Μνήσιππε, ὑμεῖσ ἔχοιτε ἂν εἰπεῖν, εἰ καὶ ἄλλουσ σοι δέκα δοίη τισ ἐπὶ τοῖσ πέντε καταριθμήσασθαι, ἀνωμότουσ, εἰ βούλει, ὡσ καὶ πολλὰ ἐπιψεύδοιο αὐτοῖσ ; (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 41:1)
  • ἡγεῖτο γὰρ πολλὰ μὲν ἐπιψεύδεσθαι τῶν οὐ προσόντων τὴν καινότητα τοῖσ φοβεροῖσ, ἐν δὲ τῇ συνηθείᾳ καὶ τὰ τῇ φύσει δεινὰ τὴν ἔκπληξιν ἀποβάλλειν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 16 2:2)
  • οἱ μὲν <οὖν> δειλοὶ καὶ θρασεῖσ ἐπιψεύδονται διὰ τὰσ ἕξεισ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 39:1)
  • ἕκαστοσ δέ τισ προσποιεῖται καὶ τῆσ βουλῆσ μετεσχηκέναι καὶ πλείστουσ ἀπεκτονέναι, χαλεπὸν δὲ εὑρεῖν ὅπου οὐχὶ καὶ ἐπιψεύδονται, πλέονασ φάσκοντεσ ἀπεκτονέναι ἢ ὅσοι ἂν τῷ ὄντι ἀποθάνωσιν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 17:1)

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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