Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πρόκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόκειμαι πρόκείσομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as Pass. of proti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to be set before one
  2. to lie exposed, to lie dead, the corpse laid out
  3. to be set before all, to be set before all, be set forth, proposed, were set forth, proposed, proposed, in hand
  4. to be set forth beforehand, to be prescribed, prescribed, are set, fixed
  5. to lie before, lie in front of
  6. to precede, initial

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • ῥυθμίζομεν οὖν τὰσ γνώμασ αὐτῶν νόμουσ τε τοὺσ κοινοὺσ ἐκδιδάσκοντεσ, οἳ δημοσίᾳ πᾶσι πρόκεινται ἀναγιγνώσκειν μεγάλοισ γράμμασιν ἀναγεγραμμένοι, κελεύοντεσ ἅ τε χρὴ ποιεῖν καὶ ὧν ἀπέχεσθαι, καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν συνουσίαισ, παρ’ ὧν λέγειν τὰ δέοντα ἐκμανθάνουσι καὶ πράττειν τὰ δίκαια καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου ἀλλήλοισ συμπολιτεύεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἐφίεσθαι τῶν αἰσχρῶν καὶ ὀρέγεσθαι τῶν καλῶν, βίαιον δὲ μηδὲν ποιεῖν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 22:1)
  • "ἕτεραι δὲ τρεῖσ ἴσον ἐκείνησ ἀφεστῶσαι καὶ ἀλλήλων πρόκεινται μάλιστα κατὰ δυσμὰσ; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 263)
  • εἴ μοι ξυνείη φέροντι μοῖρα τὰν εὔσεπτον ἁγνείαν λόγων ἔργων τε πάντων, ὧν νόμοι πρόκεινται ὑψίποδεσ, οὐρανίαν δι’ αἰθέρα τεκνωθέντεσ, ὧν Ὄλυμποσ πατὴρ μόνοσ, οὐδέ νιν θνατὰ φύσισ ἀνέρων ἔτικτεν οὐδὲ μή ποτε λάθα κατακοιμάσῃ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὴν ἀγοράν, ἐσ ἣν οὐδενὸσ πολεμίου κεφαλήν, ἀλλὰ ὅπλα μόνα καὶ ἔμβολα νεῶν ἐφέρομεν, ὑπάτων ἄρτι καὶ στρατηγῶν καὶ δημάρχων καὶ ἀγορανόμων καὶ ἱππέων κεφαλαὶ πρόκεινται· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 12 7:3)
  • τῆσ γὰρ Σικελίασ ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ μεσημβρίαν μέρουσ νῆσοι τρεῖσ πρόκεινται πελάγιαι, καὶ τούτων ἑκάστη πόλιν ἔχει καὶ λιμένασ δυναμένουσ τοῖσ χειμαζομένοισ σκάφεσι παρέχεσθαι τὴν ἀσφάλειαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 12 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be set before one

  2. to be set forth beforehand

  3. to lie before

  4. to precede

Derived

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

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