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

  • οἴμοι, γυναικόσ, ὡσ ἐοίχ’, ἡσσώμενοσ δούλησ ὑφέξω τοῖσ κακίοσιν δίκην. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 8:1)
  • κἂν μὲν κτάνω τόνδ’, οἶκον οἰκήσω μόνοσ, ἡσσώμενοσ δὲ τῷδε παραδώσω μόνῳ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 13:23)
  • Οὐρίατθοσ ὲν ἐπὶ θάτερα τῆσ Ἰβηρίασ ἑτέρῳ στρατηγῷ Ῥωμαιων Κοϊντίῳ συνεπλέκετο, καὶ ἡσσώμενοσ ἐσ τὸ Ἀφροδίσιον ὄροσ ἀνέστρεφεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 6:4)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἀντίοχοσ καὶ ὣσ συνέβαλέ τε τοῖσ Παρθυαίοισ, καὶ ἡσσώμενοσ ἑαυτὸν ἔκτεινεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 4:6)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ ἐμπειρίασ οὔτε ἠλάλαξαν ὡσ οὐκ ἐκπλήξοντεσ ἀλλήλουσ, οὔτε ἐν τῷ πόνῳ τισ αὐτῶν ἀφῆκε φωνὴν οὔτε νικῶν οὔτε ἡσσώμενοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 9 5:2)

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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