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ἐποχέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐποχέομαι

Structure: ἐποχέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be carried upon, ride upon, to ride on

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

  • Ἀναξιμένησ διὰ τὸ πλάτοσ ἐποχεῖσθαι τῷ ἀέρι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 7:3)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὔτε τρέφειν οὐδεὶσ ἐθέλει καλὸσ κἀγαθὸσ κάμηλον ὥστ’ ἐποχεῖσθαι οὔτε μελετᾶν ὡσ πολεμήσων ἀπὸ τούτων. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 61:2)
  • καὶ ἐν ἄλλοισ τὴν γῆν τῷ ἀέρι ἐποχεῖσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 73:6)
  • τὸν δὲ ἐν Ποροσελήνῃ δελφῖνα τῷ παιδὶ σῶστρα ἀποδιδόντα, ὅτι συγκοπέντα ὑπὸ ἁλιέων αὐτὸν ἰάσατο, τοῦτον τὸν δελφῖνα εἶδον καὶ καλοῦντι τῷ παιδὶ ὑπακούοντα καὶ φέροντα, ὁπότε ἐποχεῖσθαί οἱ βούλοιτο. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 11:3)
  • ἐν ᾗ γε τὰ μὲν ζῶντα πέφυκεν οὐ νηχόμενα ἐποχεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ θνήσκοντα ἐσ βυθὸν χωρεῖν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be carried upon

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

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