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λυμαίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυμαίνομαι

Structure: λυμαίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: lu/mh

Sense

  1. to treat with indignity, to outrage, to maltreat, used to murder, spoils
  2. to inflict indignities or outrages upon
  3. to cause ruin

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἐπιτηδείων ἐσπάνιζον εἰργόμενοι προνομῆσ φόβῳ τοῦ Καμίλλου, καὶ νόσοσ ὑποικούρησεν αὐτοὺσ ἐν νεκρῶν πλήθει χύδην καταβεβλημένων σκηνοῦντασ ἐν ἐρειπίοισ, τό τε βάθοσ τῆσ τέφρασ ἀέρα ξηρότητι καὶ δριμύτητι φαῦλον ὑπὸ πνευμάτων καὶ καυμάτων ἀναθυμιώσησ ἐλυμαίνετο τὰ σώματα διὰ τῆσ ἀναπνοῆσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 28 1:2)
  • εἰ δέ γε δοῦλοσ ἢ ὑποβολιμαῖοσ τὰ μὴ προσήκοντ’ ἀπώλλυε καὶ ἐλυμαίνετο, Ἡράκλεισ ὅσῳ μᾶλλον δεινὸν καὶ ὀργῆσ ἄξιον πάντεσ ἂν ἔφησαν εἶναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 36:1)
  • καὶ τὴν χώραν διέφθειρε, καὶ τὰ βοσκήματα ἐλυμαίνετο· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 3 1:7)
  • δεῖ γὰρ ὑμᾶσ εἰδέναι ὅτι δοῦλοσ καὶ ἐκ δούλων ἐστίν, ἵν’ εἰδῆτε οἱο͂σ ὢν ὑμᾶσ ἐλυμαίνετο. (Lysias, Speeches, 83:2)
  • ἀλλὰ ὅτε ὑμεῖσ ἐκινδυνεύετε ἐκπλέοντεσ, οὗτοσ αὐτοῦ μένων τοὺσ Σόλωνοσ νόμουσ ἐλυμαίνετο. (Lysias, Speeches, 33:3)

Synonyms

  1. to inflict indignities or outrages upon

  2. to cause ruin

Derived

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

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