προπολεμέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προπολεμέω
προπολεμήσω
Structure:
προ
(Prefix)
+
πολεμέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to make war for or in defence of, the guards or defenders of a country, the body intended to act as guards
Conjugation
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.
- καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῇ Πολιτείᾳ περὶ ὀλίγων πάμπαν διώρικεν ὁ Σωκράτησ, περί τε γυναικῶν καὶ τέκνων κοινωνίασ, πῶσ ἔχειν δεῖ, καὶ περὶ κτήσεωσ, καὶ τῆσ πολιτείασ τὴν τάξιν διαιρεῖται γὰρ εἰσ δύο μέρη τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν οἰκούντων, τὸ μὲν εἰσ τοὺσ γεωργούσ, τὸ δὲ εἰσ τὸ προπολεμοῦν μέροσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 96:2)
- ἐποίει γὰρ ἓν μὲν μέροσ τεχνίτασ, ἓν δὲ γεωργούσ, τρίτον δὲ τὸ προπολεμοῦν καὶ τὰ ὅπλα ἔχον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 164:2)
- διόπερ κατὰ ταύτην τὴν πολιτείαν κυριώτατον τὸ προπολεμοῦν καὶ μετέχουσιν αὐτῆσ οἱ κεκτημένοι τὰ ὅπλα. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 108:2)
- τὸ δὲ προπολεμοῦν οὐ πρότερον ἀποδίδωσι μέροσ πρὶν ἢ τῆσ χώρασ αὐξομένησ καὶ τῆσ τῶν πλησίον ἁπτομένησ εἰσ πόλεμον καταστῶσιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 59:2)
- ἆρ’ οὖν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, καὶ τοὺσ ἔξωθεν πολεμίουσ τούτω ἂν κάλλιστα φυλαττοίτην ὑπὲρ ἁπάσησ τῆσ ψυχῆσ τε καὶ τοῦ σώματοσ, τὸ μὲν βουλευόμενον, τὸ δὲ προπολεμοῦν, ἑπόμενον δὲ τῷ ἄρχοντι καὶ τῇ ἀνδρείᾳ ἐπιτελοῦν τὰ βουλευθέντα; (Plato, Republic, book 4 523:1)
Derived
- ἀποπολεμέω (to fight off from, from)
- διαπολεμέω (to carry the war through, end the war, to fight it out)
- ἐκπολεμέω (to excite to war, make hostile)
- καταπολεμέω (to war down, to exhaust by war, subdue completely)
- πολεμέω (to be at war or go to war, make war, with)
- προσπολεμέω (to carry on war against, be at war with another)
- συμπολεμέω (to join in war, with)
- συνδιαπολεμέω (to carry on a war along with, which remained with, throughout the war)
