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

  • εὐπορεῖτο‧ ὅτε μὲν γὰρ εὖ κατατείνοιμι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἡσσᾶτο ὁ ἀσκὸσ, καὶ οὐκ ἠδύνατο ἡ φῦσα ἐσαναγκάζεσθαι‧ καὶ ἄλλωσ ἕτοιμον περιολισθάνειν ἦν, ἅτε ἐσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀναγκαζόμενον, τό τε τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὕβωμα, καὶ τὸ τοῦ ἀσκοῦ πληρουμένου κύρτωμα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 47.21)
  • ἔνθα τῆσ ἐπιούσησ εὐθὺσ ἡσσᾶτο, καὶ τὸν χάρακα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν Βαιτύκην ἔλαβεν ὁ Σκιπίων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 1:5)
  • προσιόντοσ δ’ αὐτοῖσ τοῦ Λευκόλλου, ὁ μὲν Μιθριδάτησ τὸ πεζὸν ἅπαν καὶ μέροσ τι τῶν ἱππέων ἐπὶ λόφου συνεῖχε, τῇ λοιπῇ δ’ ἵππῳ Τιγράνησ τοῖσ σιτολογοῦσι Ῥωμαίοισ περιπεσὼν ἡσσᾶτο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 13 1:5)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀγχώμαλοι διεκρίθησαν ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, τῇ δὲ ἑξῆσ ναυμαχίᾳ ἡσσᾶτο ὁ Δολοβέλλασ, καὶ ὁ Κάσσιοσ αἰρομένου τοῦ χώματοσ ἔκοπτεν αὐτοῦ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἤδη καὶ ἐσάλευεν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 8 6:2)
  • ἤδη δὲ καὶ ἔξω τοῦ Κασσίου στρατὸσ ἡσσᾶτο καὶ τὴν κατάληψιν ἰδὼν τοῦ στρατοπέδου διεσκίδνατο ἀκόσμωσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 14 6:3)

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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