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

  • καὶ περὶ τούτου μόνον Τιμοκράτουσ καὶ Προμάχου ἐμβέβληται μαρτυρίασ, οἳ οὔτε γένει προσήκουσί μου τῷ πατρὶ οὐδὲν οὔτε φίλοι ἦσαν ἐκείνῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 34:2)
  • ἰὼ κελαινὰ λόγχα προμάχου δορόσ, ἃ τότε θοὰν νύμφαν ἄγαγεσ ἀπ’ αἰπεινᾶσ τάνδ’ Οἰχαλίασ αἰχμᾷ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • σοὶ μὲν καμπύλα τόξα, καὶ ἰοχέαιρα φαρέτρη, δῶρα παρὰ Προμάχου, Φοῖβε, τάδε κρέμαται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 91)
  • νέκυν δ’ οὔ φημι καλύπτειν τόσσου τόσσοσ ἐὼν Αὐσονίων προμάχου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5912)
  • Προμάχου δὲ οὐ πόρρω Τιμασίθεοσ ἀνάκειται γένοσ Δελφόσ, Ἀγελάδα μὲν ἔργον τοῦ Ἀργείου, παγκρατίου δὲ δύο μὲν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ νίκασ, τρεῖσ δὲ ἀνῃρημένοσ Πυθοῖ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 12:1)

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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