Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κάθημαι

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάθημαι κάθημαι

Structure:

Sense

  1. to be seated
  2. to be seated in court
  3. to sit still, sit quietly, sit idly, do nothing
  4. to lead a sedentary, obscure life
  5. (of people) to be settled
  6. (of things) to be set or placed

Conjugation

Perfect 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

  • καὶ τέσσαρεσ ἄνδρεσ ἦσαν λεπροὶ παρὰ τὴν θύραν τῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ εἶπεν ἀνὴρ πρὸσ τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ. τί ἡμεῖσ καθήμεθα ὧδε, ἕωσ ἀποθάνωμεν̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 7:3)
  • ἐπὶ τί ἡμεῖσ καθήμεθα̣ συνάχθητε καὶ εἰσέλθωμεν εἰσ τὰσ πόλεισ τὰσ ὀχυρὰσ καὶ ἀπορριφῶμεν, ὅτι Θεὸσ ἀπέρριψεν ἡμᾶσ καὶ ἐπότισεν ἡμᾶσ ὕδωρ χολῆσ, ὅτι ἡμάρτομεν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 8:12)
  • εἰ δ’ οὖν τι καὶ πέπρακται τοιοῦτον ἐν Σικελίᾳ, τοῦτ’ οὐ Δελφοῖσ ἀναγκαῖον πολυπραγμονεῖν, εἰ μὴ ἀντὶ ἱερέων ἤδη δικασταὶ εἶναι ἀξιοῦμεν καί, δέον θύειν καὶ τἆλλα θεραπεύειν τὸν θεὸν καὶ συνανατιθέναι εἰ πέμψειέ τισ, σκοποῦντεσ καθήμεθα εἴ τινεσ τῶν ὑπὲρ τὸν Ιὄνιον δικαίωσ ἢ ἀδίκωσ τυραννοῦνται. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 7:1)
  • τόδ’ ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ σῆμ’, ἐφ’ ᾧ καθήμεθα. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode40)
  • φόβῳ δ’ ἃ μὴ χρῆν εἰσορᾶν καθήμεθα σιγῇ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be seated

  2. to be seated in court

  3. to be settled

  4. to be set or placed

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