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

  • τί γὰρ ἄν σοι τῶν στρατηγῶν λέγοιμι τοὺσ εἰκότωσ ἀρίστουσ κριθέντασ, ὅτι οὐ τάττειν μόνον καὶ παραινεῖν ἦσαν ἀγαθοί, ἀλλὰ καὶ προμάχεσθαι τῶν ἄλλων καὶ χειρὸσ ἔργα ἐπιδείκνυσθαι; (Lucian, (no name) 1:4)
  • σοῦ προμάχεται καὶ φυλάττει τὴν θύραν καὶ τἄλλ’ ἄριστόσ ἐστιν· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:5)
  • καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺσ τοὺσ μὲν ψιλοὺσ καὶ πελταστὰσ προμάχεσθαι τῆσ φάλαγγοσ ἐκέλευσεν, αὐτὴν δ’ ἔστησε πρὸ τοῦ στρατοπέδου, ἐπὶ δεξιὰ δ’ αὐτῆσ τοὺσ σφενδονήτασ καὶ τοξότασ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπωρειῶν, τοὺσ δ’ ἐλέφαντασ ἐν ἀριστερᾷ, καὶ τὸ στῖφοσ ὃ μετ’ αὐτῶν ἀεὶ συνετάσσετο, παρὰ τῇ θαλάσσῃ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 2:10)
  • καὶ προσιόντεσ τῷ Πομπηίῳ συνθέσθαι παρεκάλουν, ὅτε καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα κατερρήξατο ὁ Πομπήιοσ ὡσ καὶ τῶνδε προδιδόντων αὑτόν, ὧν προμάχεται, καὶ θαμινὰ τὸν Μηνόδωρον ὡσ στρατηγικὸν καὶ μόνον εὔνουν ἀνεκάλει. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 8 5:9)
  • ἐν δ’ Ἀγαμέμνων πρῶτοσ ὄρουσ’, ἔθελεν δὲ πολὺ προμάχεσθαι ἁπάντων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 18:4)

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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