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προσεῖπον

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσεῖπον

Structure:

Etym.: used as aor2 of prosagoreu/w

Sense

  1. to speak to, to address, accost
  2. to address as, to bid, greeting
  3. to call, to name, thou didst name

Conjugation

Aorist 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

  • τούτων δὴ πάντων ὅσα χυτὰ προσείπομεν ὕδατα, τὸ μὲν ἐκ λεπτοτάτων καὶ ὁμαλωτάτων πυκνότατον γιγνόμενον, μονοειδὲσ γένοσ, στίλβοντι καὶ ξανθῷ χρώματι κοινωθέν, τιμαλφέστατον κτῆμα χρυσὸσ ἠθημένοσ διὰ πέτρασ ἐπάγη· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 268:4)
  • βίᾳ διωθοῦσαν καὶ τήκουσαν, πῦρ μὲν ἁθρόον καὶ ὕδωρ, ὃ δάκρυον καλοῦμεν, ἐκεῖθεν ἐκχέουσαν, αὐτὴν δὲ οὖσαν πῦρ ἐξ ἐναντίασ ἀπαντῶσαν, καὶ τοῦ μὲν ἐκπηδῶντοσ πυρὸσ οἱο͂ν ἀπ’ ἀστραπῆσ, τοῦ δ’ εἰσιόντοσ καὶ περὶ τὸ νοτερὸν κατασβεννυμένου, παντοδαπῶν ἐν τῇ κυκήσει ταύτῃ γιγνομένων χρωμάτων, μαρμαρυγὰσ μὲν τὸ πάθοσ προσείπομεν, τὸ δὲ τοῦτο ἀπεργαζόμενον λαμπρόν τε καὶ στίλβον ἐπωνομάσαμεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 328:1)
  • τὸν μὲν δυνάμενον ἴσον ἰσάκισ γίγνεσθαι τῷ τετραγώνῳ τὸ σχῆμα ἀπεικάσαντεσ τετράγωνόν τε καὶ ἰσόπλευρον προσείπομεν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 37:6)
  • ἣν γὰρ ἔφαμεν αὐτεπιτακτικὴν μὲν εἶναι τέχνην ἐπὶ ζῴοισ, οὐ μὴν ἰδίᾳ γε ἀλλὰ κοινῇ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν ἔχουσαν, καὶ προσείπομεν δὴ τότε εὐθὺσ ἀγελαιοτροφικήν ‐ μέμνησαι γάρ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 111:4)
  • ἰατρὸσ δὴ τὸ περὶ σῶμα ἀγνοῶν, ὃ προσείπομεν ὑγίειαν νῦν, ἢ νίκην στρατηγὸσ ἢ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα δὴ διήλθομεν, ἔσθ’ ὅπωσ ἂν νοῦν περί τι τούτων ἂν ἔχων φαίνοιτο; (Plato, Laws, book 12 146:2)

Synonyms

  1. to speak to

  2. to address as

  3. to call

Related

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

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