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καλλιλογέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλιλογέομαι

Structure: καλλιλογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to use specious phrases

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

  • ἔστι δὴ παρὰ τῷ Ἡροδότῳ βασιλεύσ τισ Λυδῶν, ὃν ἐκεῖνοσ Κανδαύλην καλεῖ, Μυρσίλον δὲ καλεῖσθαί φησιν ὑφ’ Ἑλλήνων, τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ γυναικὸσ ἐρῶν, ἔπειτα ἀξιῶν τινα τῶν ἑταίρων αὐτοῦ γυμνὴν τὴν ἄνθρωπον ἰδεῖν, ὃ δὲ ἀπομαχόμενοσ μὴ ἀναγκασθῆναι, ὡσ δὲ οὐκ ἔπειθεν, ὑπομένων τε καὶ θεώμενοσ αὐτήν ‐ πρᾶγμα οὐχ ὅτι σεμνὸν ἢ καλλιλογεῖσθαι ἐπιτήδειον, ἀλλὰ καὶ παιδικὸν καὶ ἐπικίνδυνον καὶ τοῦ αἰσχροῦ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ καλοῦ ἐγγυτέρῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 336)

Synonyms

  1. to use specious phrases

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

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