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

  • ἔνθεν δὲ ἡ αὐτοῦ ἐπ̓ Ἰσσῷ ἧσσα, ἵνα τήν τε μητέρα αἰχμαλωτισθεῖσαν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἐπεῖδεν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 22 4:2)
  • πάντων τε ὡσ ἐν τοσῷδε πλήθει θλιβομένων, καὶ τὸ ἀκριβὲσ οὐκ εἰδότων, ὁπόθεν ἡ ἧσσα αὐτοῖσ ἄρχοιτο, πολὺσ ἦν φόνοσ, οὐδενὸσ σκυλεύοντοσ οὐδέν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 7:14)
  • καὶ τοῦδε μὲν Πομπήιοσ τῆσ οὐραγίασ ἐξαπτόμενοσ ἠνώχλει, ἡ δὲ περὶ Πραινεστὸν ἧσσα ὧδε ἐγένετο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 10 3:6)
  • καὶ τῶν ὑπάτων αὐτὸν αὖθισ περὶ τὴν Πικηνίτιδα γῆν ὑποστάντων, μέγασ ἀγὼν ἕτεροσ ὅδε γίγνεται καὶ μεγάλη καὶ τότε ἧσσα Ῥωμαίων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 14 2:6)

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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