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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

  • μίξεωσ δὲ καὶ ἀφροδισίων καὶ γάμων πολλὴ αὐταῖσ ἡ ἐλευθερία, καὶ ὁ ἄρρην οὐ κατὰ τοὺσ ἀλεκτρυόνασ ἐπιβὰσ εὐθὺσ ἀπεπήδησεν, ἀλλ’ ἐποχεῖται τῇ θηλείᾳ ἐπὶ πολύ, κἀκείνη φέρει τὸν νυμφίον, καὶ συμπέτονται τὴν ἐναέριον ἐκείνην μῖξιν τῇ πτήσει μὴ διαφθείρουσαι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 6:2)
  • ὁ μὲν ἴλαρχοσ πρῶτοσ τάσσεται, οἱ δ̓ ἐφ ἑκάτερα αὐτοῦ ἱππῆσ οὐκ ἐξ ἴσου αὐτῷ στοιχοῦσιν, ἀλλ̓ ἐσ τοσόνδε ὑποβεβηκότεσ, ὥστε τὰσ κεφαλὰσ κατὰ τοὺσ ὤμουσ μάλιστα τοῦ ἵππου τετάχθαι, ὅτῳ ὁ ἴλαρχοσ ἐποχεῖται. (Arrian, chapter 17 1:2)
  • καὶ Ἀριστοτέλησ δὲ ἀπιστεῖ, καίπερ ἀέρων ὄντων λεπτῶν οἷσ οὐδὲν ἐποχεῖται πτηνόν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 76:3)

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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