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

  • ἀναλαβὼν οὖν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ τῶν ἱππέων τῶν μεθ’ ἑαυτοῦ τεταγμένων μετὰ τούτων ἐπέρραξε τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ νομίσασ τὸ φιλάδελφον τῆσ ψυχῆσ οἴσειν αὐτῷ περιβόητον παρὰ Πέρσαισ δόξαν προεμάχετο τοῦ Δαρείου τεθρίππου καὶ μετ’ ἐμπειρίασ εὐτόλμωσ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ συμπλεκόμενοσ πολλοὺσ ἀπέκτεινε. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 34 3:1)

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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