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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)
  • 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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