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κατεῖπον

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατεῖπον

Structure:

Etym.: used as aor2 to katagoreu/w. (katerw= being the fut.)

Sense

  1. to speak against or to the prejudice of, accuse, denounce
  2. to speak out, tell plainly, declare, report
  3. to tell

Conjugation

Aorist 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

  • Μελάνιπποσ δ’ ἦν τὰ παιδικά, ὥσ φησιν Ἡρακλείδησ ὁ Ποντικὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἐρωτικῶν, οὗτοι φανέντεσ ἐπιβουλεύοντεσ Φαλάριδι καὶ βασανιζόμεναι ἀναγκαζόμενοί τε λέγειν τοὺσ συνειδότασ οὐ μόνον οὐ κατεῖπον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Φάλαριν αὐτὸν εἰσ ἔλεον τῶν βασάνων ἤγαγον, ὡσ ἀπολῦσαι αὐτοὺσ πολλὰ ἐπαινέσαντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 78 1:1)
  • οἱ δὲ καθ’ ὑπεροψίαν ἤδη τοῦ Φιλώτου τραπόμενοι πρὸσ ἕτερον καὶ δι’ ἐκείνου τῷ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ προσαχθέντεσ πρῶτον μὲν τὰ τοῦ Λίμνου κατεῖπον, ἔπειτα παρεδήλωσαν ἡσυχῇ τὸν Φιλώταν, ὡσ ἀμελήσειεν αὐτῶν δὶσ ἐντυχόντων. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 49 4:1)
  • καὶ οὗτοι στρεβλούμενοι σφῶν τε αὐτῶν κατεῖπον τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν καί τινασ καὶ ἄλλουσ ὠνόμασαν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 13 7:6)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ ξυλλαβὼν τοὺσ Μάγουσ τοὺσ φύλακασ τοῦ τάφου ἐστρέβλωσεν, ὡσ κατειπεῖν τοὺσ δράσαντασ, οἱ δὲ οὐδὲν οὔτε σφῶν οὔτε ἄλλου κατεῖπον στρεβλούμενοι, οὐδὲ ἄλλῃ πῃ ἐξηλέγχοντο ξυνειδότεσ τῷ ἔργῳ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 29 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. to speak against or to the prejudice of

  2. to speak out

  3. to tell

Related

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

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