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λίσσομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λίσσομαι

Structure: λίσς (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to beg, pray, entreat, beseech, by which, I do not pray
  2. to beg or pray for, I beg

Examples

  • εἰ θέμισ ἐστί μοι τὰν ἀφανῆ θεὸν καὶ σὲ λιταῖσ σεβίζειν, ἐννυχίων ἄναξ, Αἰδωνεῦ Αἰδωνεῦ, λίσσωμαι ἄπονα μήτ’ ἐπὶ βαρυαχεῖ ξένον ἐξανύσαι μόρῳ τὰν παγκευθῆ κάτω νεκρῶν πλάκα καὶ Στύγιον δόμον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)
  • εἰ δέ κε λίσσωμαι ὑμέασ λῦσαί τε κελεύω, ὑμεῖσ δὲ πλεόνεσσι τότ’ ἐν δεσμοῖσι πιέζειν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 17:7)

Synonyms

  1. to beg

  2. to beg or pray for

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

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