Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μαλακίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλακίζομαι

Structure: μαλακίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: malako/s

Sense

  1. to be softened or made effeminate, shew weakness or cowardice
  2. to be softened or appeased

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

  • "οὐκ εὐπόρωσ τε γὰρ ἔχω καὶ τὰ ἀμφὶ τὴν τράμιν μαλακίζομαι ἐπ’ ἀστράβησ ὀχηθείσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:7)
  • ἔπειτα γνώμην ἀποδειξαμένησ τῆσ γυναικὸσ μηδὲν ἔτι μαλακίζεσθαι μηδὲ κατοκνεῖν, ἀλλὰ καταβαλόντα τοὺσ λόγουσ ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα χωρεῖν διαλλαγὰσ πρῶτον εὑρόμενον διὰ φίλων πρὸσ τὸν Τύλλιον, ἵνα πιστεύσασ ὡσ φίλῳ γεγονότι ἧττον αὐτὸν φυλάττοιτο, δόξασ δ’ αὐτὴν τὰ κράτιστα ὑποθέσθαι μετανοεῖν τε περὶ τῶν γεγονότων ἐσκήπτετο καὶ πολλὰ διὰ φίλων λιπαρῶν τὸν Τύλλιον ἠξίου συγγνώμονα γενέσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 38 2:1)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἕκαστοσ διανοηθῇ ὡσ ἄλλοσ ἔσται ὁ πράττων καὶ μαχόμενοσ, κἂν αὐτὸσ μαλακίζηται, τούτοισ, ἔφη, εὖ ἴστε ὅτι πᾶσιν ἅμα πάντα ἥκει τὰ χαλεπὰ φερόμενα. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 5:3)
  • ὑμεῖσ γὰρ ὄπισθεν ὄντεσ τούσ τ’ ἀγαθοὺσ ἂν ἐφορῶντεσ καὶ ἐπικελεύοντεσ αὐτοῖσ ἔτι κρείττουσ ποιοῖτε, καὶ εἴ τισ μαλακίζοιτο, καὶ τοῦτον ὁρῶντεσ οὐκ ἂν ἐπιτρέποιτε αὐτῷ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 50:3)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν οὕτω σφόδρα καρτερεῖν ἠπίσταντο ὥστε μηδὲ τοῦ σώματοσ φείδεσθαι τοῦ ἑαυτῶν, ἀλλὰ τὰσ ἐσχάτασ ἀλγηδόνασ καὶ πόνουσ ὑπομένειν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲν τῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐγνωσμένων ἐγκαταλιπεῖν, οὗτοι δ’, ἐξὸν ἄνευ πραγμάτων καὶ ταλαιπωρίασ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν διασώζειν τὴν ἑαυτῶν, αἱροῦνται μαλακίζεσθαι, πῶσ οὐχὶ δικαίωσ ὁτιοῦν ἂν πάθοιεν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. to be softened or appeased

Derived

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

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