Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προμάχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προμάχομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + μάχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fight before, before
  2. to fight for or in defence of

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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ Πέρσαι διεγνώκεσαν βιάσασθαι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ καὶ τὸν Εὔριπον διεκπλεῦσαι, οἱ δ’ Ἕλληνεσ ἐμφράξαντεσ τὰ στενὰ προεμάχοντο τῶν ἐντὸσ τῆσ Εὐβοίασ συμμαχούντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 12 11:3)
  • προεμάχοντο δὲ πάντων οἱ παρ’ ἐκείνοισ ἡνίοχοι καὶ παραβάται καλούμενοι, ἄνδρεσ ἐπίλεκτοι τριακόσιοι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 70 1:3)
  • Ἀριστομένησ δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ μάχησ ὀπίσω τοὺσ Μεσσηνίουσ ἀνεκάλει, πλὴν ὅσοι κατὰ ἀνδραγαθίαν αὐτῶν προεμάχοντο· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. to fight before

  2. to fight for or in defence of

Derived

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

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