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παροψάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροψάομαι

Structure: παροψά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to eat dainties

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

  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἄσιτόν τε καὶ ἄποτον ἡ νὺξ καταλάβῃ, λουσάμενοσ πονηρῶσ ἀωρὶ περὶ αὐτό που σχεδὸν τὸ μεσονύκτιον ἥκεισ ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον, οὐκέθ’ ὁμοίωσ ἔντιμοσ οὐδὲ περίβλεπτοσ τοῖσ παροῦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἤν τισ ἄλλοσ ἐπεισέλθῃ νεαλέστεροσ, εἰσ τοὐπίσω σύ καὶ οὕτωσ εἰσ τὴν ἀτιμοτάτην γωνίαν ἐξωσθεὶσ κατάκεισαι μάρτυσ μόνον τῶν παραφερομένων, τὰ ὀστᾶ, εἰ ἐφίκοιτο μέχρι σοῦ, καθάπερ οἱ κύνεσ περιεσθίων ἢ τὸ σκληρὸν τῆσ μαλάχησ φύλλον ᾧ τὰ ἄλλα συνειλοῦσιν, εἰ ὑπεροφθείη ὑπὸ τῶν προκατακειμένων, ἄσμενοσ ὑπὸ λιμοῦ παροψώμενοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 26:1)

Synonyms

  1. to eat dainties

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

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