Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπορχέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπορχέομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + ὀρχέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to dance to the tune of

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

  • μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθ’ αὐτὸν φθέγγεσθαι μὲν οὕτω μέγα, ὀλολύζειν δ’ οὐχ ὑπέρλαμπρον, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἡμέραισ τοὺσ καλοὺσ θιάσουσ ἄγων διὰ τῶν ὁδῶν, τοὺσ ἐστεφανωμένουσ τῷ μαράθῳ καὶ τῇ λεύκῃ, τοὺσ ὄφεισ τοὺσ παρείασ θλίβων καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ αἰωρῶν, καὶ βοῶν εὐοῖ σαβοῖ, καὶ ἐπορχούμενοσ ὑῆσ ἄττησ ἄττησ ὑῆσ, ἔξαρχοσ καὶ προηγεμὼν καὶ κιττοφόροσ καὶ λικνοφόροσ καὶ τοιαῦθ’ ὑπὸ τῶν γρᾳδίων προσαγορευόμενοσ, μισθὸν λαμβάνων τούτων ἔνθρυπτα καὶ στρεπτοὺσ καὶ νεήλατα, ἐφ’ οἷσ τίσ οὐκ ἂν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ αὑτὸν εὐδαιμονίσειε καὶ τὴν αὑτοῦ τύχην; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 372:1)
  • τούτων δέ τισ ἐν μέσῷ, πορφύραν ποδήρη περικείμενοσ καὶ ψέλια καὶ στρεπτὰ ἀπὸ χρυσοῦ, σχηματίζεται ποικίλωσ ἐσ γέλωτα ὡσ ἐπορχούμενοσ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 12:7)

Synonyms

  1. to dance to the tune of

Derived

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

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