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

  • καὶ τῷ μὲν πλουσίῳ ἡ διατριβὴ οὐκ ἀηδὴσ ἐπαινουμένῳ καὶ εὐδαιμονιζομένῳ, σοὶ δὲ ὁ ὑπὲρ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀγὼν καὶ ὑπὲρ ἅπαντοσ τοῦ βίου τότε προκεῖσθαι δοκεῖ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 11:7)
  • ἡ μὲν σκέψισ, ὦ Ἄπολλον, οὕτω περὶ μεγάλων, ὥστε μὴ καθ’ ἡλικίαν, ἀλλὰ κοινὸν ἅπασι προκεῖσθαι τὸν λόγον χάριεν γάρ, εἰ περὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδυνεύοντεσ περὶ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ ἐξουσίασ μικρολογούμεθα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 26:2)
  • γῆν δ’ οὐκ εἶναι, τὸν δὲ προκεῖσθαι πεμπταῖον· (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, epirrheme14)
  • "πρότερον δὲ τούσ τε Λυδῶν καὶ τοὺσ Μήδων καὶ ἔτι ἀνώτερον καὶ τοὺσ Σύρων οἷσ οὐδὲν γένοσ ἡδονῆσ ἀζήτητον γενέσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ δῶρα παρὰ τοῖσ Πέρσαισ προκεῖσθαι λέγεται τοῖσ δυναμένοισ ἐξευρίσκειν καινὴν ἡδονὴν καὶ μάλα ὀρθῶσ, ταχὺ γὰρ ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη φύσισ ἐμπίπλαται τῶν χρονιζουσῶν ἡδονῶν, κἂν ὦσιν σφόδρα διηκριβωμέναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 64 1:5)
  • Φαῦλοι δέ τινεσ ἄνθρωποι διαβάλλειν μου τὴν ἱστορίαν ἐπικεχειρήκασιν ὥσπερ ἐν σχολῇ μειρακίων γύμνασμα προκεῖσθαι νομίζοντεσ κατηγορίασ παραδόξου καὶ διαβολῆσ, δέον ἐκεῖνο γιγνώσκειν, ὅτι δεῖ τὸν ἄλλοισ παράδοσιν πράξεων ἀληθινῶν ὑπισχνούμενον αὐτὸν ἐπίστασθαι ταύτασ πρότερον ἀκριβῶσ ἢ παρηκολουθηκότα τοῖσ γεγονόσιν ἢ παρὰ τῶν εἰδότων πυνθανόμενον. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 63:1)

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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