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μαλθακίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλθακίζομαι

Structure: μαλθακίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be softened, to relax, give in

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

  • ἐδόκει δὴ πᾶσιν, ἀρξαμένοισ ἀπὸ Δίωνοσ, δεῖν ἐμὲ πλεῦσαι καὶ μὴ μαλθακίζεσθαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 3 18:1)
  • Ὀρφέα δὲ τὸν Οἰάγρου ἀτελῆ ἀπέπεμψαν ἐξ Αἵδου, φάσμα δείξαντεσ τῆσ γυναικὸσ ἐφ’ ἣν ἧκεν, αὐτὴν δὲ οὐ δόντεσ, ὅτι μαλθακίζεσθαι ἐδόκει, ἅτε ὢν κιθαρῳδόσ, καὶ οὐ τολμᾶν ἕνεκα τοῦ ἔρωτοσ ἀποθνῄσκειν ὥσπερ Ἄλκηστισ, ἀλλὰ διαμηχανᾶσθαι ζῶν εἰσιέναι εἰσ Αἵδου. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 76:2)
  • ἐν ὅσῳ δὲ πῦρ τε ἐπορίζετο καὶ πορισθέντοσ ἔμελλον χρίσεσθαί τε καὶ πίεσθαι, καὶ δὴ ἑωσφόροσ τε ὑπερεῖχε καὶ φῶσ ἡμέρασ ὑπέφαινεν, ἐδόκει χρῆναι μὴ μαλθακίζεσθαι μηδὲ καθεύδειν ἡμέρασ οὔσησ, ἀλλ’ ἔργον ἔργῳ συνάπτειν καὶ βαδίζειν εἰσ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἱερὸν, εἰσ Γρυνεῖον, εἰωθόσ μοι καὶ ἰόντι καὶ ἐπανιόντι θύειν τῷ θεῷ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:9)

Synonyms

  1. to be softened

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

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