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μαλθακίζομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: malthakizomai

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)
  • σὺ μαλθακίζου, τὴν δ ἐμὴν αὐθαδίαν ὀργῆς τε τραχύτητα μὴ πίπλησσέ μοι. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:17)
  • ὁρᾷς δ ὅτι Ζεὺς τοῖς τοιούτοις οὐχὶ μαλθακίζεται. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 1:5)
  • 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)
  • ἤδη οὖν καὶ αὐτὸς μαλθακίζομαι, καὶ ἐκεῖνα μὲν ἐπιθυμῶ ἀναβαλέσθαι καὶ ὕστερον ἐπισκέψασθαι, ᾗ δυνατά, νῦν δὲ ὡς δυνατῶν ὄντων θεὶς σκέψομαι, ἄν μοι παριῇς, πῶς διατάξουσιν αὐτὰ οἱ ἄρχοντες γιγνόμενα, καὶ ὅτι πάντων συμφορώτατ ἂν εἰή πραχθέντα τῇ τε πόλει καὶ τοῖς φύλαξιν. (Plato, Republic, book 5 212:1)

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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