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προσαιρέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσαιρέομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + αἱρέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to choose for oneself, to take for one's companion or ally
  2. to choose in addition to

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ἡ πόλισ χαλεπὸν ἡγησαμένη πάντα ταῦτα τὸν ἵππαρχον μόνον ὄντα ἀπεργάζεσθαι προσαιρεῖται μὲν αὐτῷ συνεργοὺσ φυλάρχουσ, προσέταξε δὲ τῇ βουλῇ συνεπιμελεῖσθαι τοῦ ἱππικοῦ, ἀγαθόν μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι τοὺσ μὲν φυλάρχουσ παρασκευάζειν συνεπιθυμεῖν σοι τῶν καλῶν τῷ ἱππικῷ, ἐν δὲ τῇ βουλῇ ἔχειν ῥήτορασ ἐπιτηδείουσ, ὅπωσ λέγοντεσ φοβῶσί τε τοὺσ ἱππέασ βελτίονεσ γὰρ ἂν εἰε͂ν φοβούμενοι, καταπραύ̈νωσί τε τὴν βουλήν, ἤν τι παρὰ καιρὸν χαλεπαίνῃ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. to choose for oneself

  2. to choose in addition to

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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