Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἡσσάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡσσάομαι

Structure: ἡσσά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Note that middle forms such as h(tth/somai can have passive sense.

Sense

  1. to be less than another, inferior to, to yield to the power of, he had proved inferior
  2. to be defeated, discomfited, worsted, beaten
  3. to give way, yield, to be a slave to, to be overcome by

Examples

  • Αἰάσ ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδὲν ἡσσᾶσθαι δοκεῖ χὡ Τυδέωσ παῖσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:8)
  • Εἰκὸσ μὲν οὖν οὕτωσ ἀκαμπτότατόν τε καὶ τετανώτατον εἶναι τὸ χωρίον, καὶ μὴ ἡσσᾶσθαι, μηδὲ ξυνδιδόναι, ἑλκομένησ τῆσ νευρῆσ ὑπὸ τῆσ δεξιῆσ χειρόσ‧ καὶ οὕτωσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον μὲν τὴν νευρὴν ἑλκύσει, ἀφήσει δὲ ἀπὸ στερεωτάτου καὶ ἀθροωτάτου‧ ἀπὸ τῶν τοιουτέων γὰρ ἀφεσίων τῶν τοξευμάτων, ταχεῖαι καὶ αἱ ἰσχύεσ καὶ τὰ μήκεα γίνονται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.6)
  • Ἐπιδέσμων δὲ πλῆθοσ, μῆκοσ, πλάτοσ‧ πλῆθοσ μὲν, μὴ ἡσσᾶσθαι τοῦ σίνεοσ, μηδὲ νάρθηξιν ἐνέρεισιν εἶναι, μηδὲ ἄχθοσ, μηδὲ περίῤῬεψιν, μηδὲ ἐκθήλυνσιν‧ μῆκοσ δὲ καὶ πλάτοσ, τριῶν, ἢ τεσσάρων, ἢ πέντε, ἢ ἓξ, πήχεων μὲν μῆκοσ, δακτύλων δὲ πλάτοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 12.4)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν αἰδὼσ ἦν τὸ δύο τέλεσιν οὖσιν δι’ ἑνὸσ ἡσσᾶσθαι, τοῖσ δὲ φιλοτιμία μόνοισ τῶν δύο κρατῆσαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 9 4:8)
  • πρὸσ σὲ δέ, ὦ Κάσσιε, καὶ αἰδώσ τισ ἔστιν ἐξαίρετοσ ἔσ τε τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν ἐν αὐτῇ τροφήν τέ σου καὶ παίδευσιν καὶ διατριβὴν καὶ ἑστίαν, ἣν ᾤκησασ, καὶ τοὐμὸν διδασκαλεῖον αὐτὸ καὶ ἐμέ, ἐλπίσαντα μὲν ἐσ ἕτερα τούτοισ ποτὲ ἐναβρυνεῖσθαι, νῦν δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆσ πατρίδοσ αὐτὰ δαπανῶντα, ἵνα μηδ’ αὐτή σοι πολεμεῖν ἀναγκάζηται πεπαιδευμένῳ τε ὑφ’ αὑτῆσ καὶ τεθραμμένῳ μηδὲ γένηται δυοῖν ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ θάτερον, ἢ Ῥοδίουσ ἀποθανεῖν πάντωσ ἢ Κάσσιον ἡσσᾶσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 9 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. to give way

Derived

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

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