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μέλλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλλημα μέλληματος

Structure: μελληματ (Stem)

Etym.: me/llw

Sense

  1. a delay

Declension

Third declension

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

  • δρᾶ γ’, εἴ τι δράσεισ, ἢ ἄπαγ’ οἴκαδε στρατόν, τὰ τῶν Ἀτρειδῶν μὴ μένων μελλήματα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode11)
  • τούτων ὁ Νικίασ τὰ μὲν αἰνιττόμενοσ, τὰ δ’ οὐ θέλων ἐν φανερῷ λέγειν, ἀτολμίασ παρέσχε τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ δόξαν, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐκεῖνα πάλιν ἥκειν φάσκοντεσ αὐτοῦ, μελλήματα καὶ διατριβὰσ καὶ ἀκριβολογίασ, αἷσ ἀπώλεσε τὴν ἀκμὴν οὐκ εὐθὺσ ἐπιχειρῶν τοῖσ πολεμίοισ, ἀλλ’ ἑώλοσ καὶ καταφρονούμενοσ, τῷ Δημοσθένει προσετίθεντο. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 3:3)
  • τῆσ εἰρήνησ τὴν συμμαχίαν, οὐδὲ τὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀναμένειν μελλήματα, ἀλλ’ ἢ πολεμεῖν αὐτούσ, ἢ τὴν εἰρήνην ἰδίᾳ ποιεῖσθαι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 721)

Synonyms

  1. a delay

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

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