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κατασοφίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασοφίζομαι κατασοφίσομαι

Structure: κατασοφίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to conquer by sophisms or fallacies, to outwit, to be outwitted

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • οὓσ καὶ σὺ γιγνώσκων ὑποκρίνῃ ἀγνοεῖν κἀμὲ κατασοφίζῃ ὥσ τινοσ αὐτοῖσ αἰσχύνησ ἐντεῦθεν γιγνομένησ, οὐχὶ τιμῆσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 31:6)
  • Κατασοφίζῃ με, ὦ Προμηθεῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:1)
  • ἐπιστραφέντοσ δὲ τοῦ Ἀβεννήρου καὶ κατασοφίζεσθαι τὴν ὁρμὴν αὐτοῦ πειρωμένου καὶ ποτὲ μὲν εἰπόντοσ ἑνὸσ τῶν αὐτοῦ στρατιωτῶν ἀφέμενοσ τῆσ διώξεωσ ἀφελέσθαι τὴν πανοπλίαν, πάλιν δ’ ὡσ οὐκ ἔπειθε τοῦτο ποιεῖν κατασχεῖν αὑτὸν καὶ μὴ διώκειν παραινοῦντοσ, μὴ κτείνασ αὐτὸν ἀπολέσῃ τὴν πρὸσ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ παρρησίαν, οὐ προσιέμενον [δὲ] τοὺσ λόγουσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπιμείναντα τὴν δίωξιν φεύγων ὡσ εἶχε τὸ δόρυ πλήξασ εἰσ τοὐπίσω καιρίωσ παραχρῆμ’ ἀπέκτεινεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 19:1)

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

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