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.
- ἐπεὶ δ’ Ἀντώνιοσ μὲν ἥττητο, τῶν δ’ ὑπάτων ἀμφοτέρων ἀποθανόντων ἐκ τῆσ μάχησ πρὸσ Καίσαρα συνέστησαν αἱ δυνάμεισ, δείσασα δ’ ἡ βουλὴ νέον ἄνδρα καὶ τύχῃ λαμπρᾷ κεχρημένον ἐπειρᾶτο τιμαῖσ καὶ δωρεαῖσ ἀποκαλεῖν αὐτοῦ τὰ στρατεύματα καὶ περισπᾶν τὴν δύναμιν, ὡσ μὴ δεομένη τῶν προπολεμούντων Ἀντωνίου πεφευγότοσ, οὕτωσ ὁ Καῖσαρ φοβηθεὶσ ὑπέπεμπε τῷ Κικέρωνι τοὺσ δεομένουσ καὶ πείθοντασ ὑπατείαν μὲν ἀμφοτέροισ ὁμοῦ πράττειν, χρῆσθαι δὲ τοῖσ πράγμασιν ὅπωσ αὐτὸσ ἔγνωκε, παραλαμβάνοντα τὴν ἀρχήν, καὶ τὸ μειράκιον διοικεῖν ὀνόματοσ καὶ δόξησ γλιχόμενον. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 45 4:1)
- Ὁ δ’ Εὐμένησ, ἐπεὶ τὰ πρῶτα καλῶσ ἐπέπρακτο αὐτῷ, καὶ τὸ μεταίχμιον, ὅσον αἵ τε κάμηλοι καὶ τὰ ἁρ́ματα ἐπεῖχεν, ἐγεγύμνωτο, τοὺσ ἰδίουσ ἱππέασ, καὶ ὅσοι Ῥωμαίων αὐτῷ καὶ Ἰταλῶν παρετετάχατο, ἐπῆγεν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀντικρὺ Γαλάτασ τε καὶ Καππαδόκασ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην σύνοδον τῶν ξένων, μέγα κεκραγὼσ καὶ παρακαλῶν ἐπὶ ἄνδρασ ἀπείρουσ τε μάχησ καὶ γεγυμνωμένουσ τῶν προπολεμούντων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 7:1)
- καὶ ἑώσ ἂν ἡ πόλισ σοι οἰκῇ σωφρόνωσ ὡσ ἄρτι ἐτάχθη, μεγίστη ἔσται, οὐ τῷ εὐδοκιμεῖν λέγω, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ μεγίστη, καὶ ἐὰν μόνον ᾖ χιλίων τῶν προπολεμούντων· (Plato, Republic, book 4 66:2)
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)
