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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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν παρόντεσ ἄγχειν με καὶ παίειν ἐπειρῶντο ὡσ ἱερόσυλον, καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ἀγανακτήσαντεσ ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρον αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ μὴ προφήτην προσεῖπον ὁ δὲ πάνυ γεννικῶσ καρτερήσασ κατέπαυέν τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ ὑπισχνεῖτο τιθασόν με ῥᾳδίωσ ἀποφανεῖν καὶ δείξειν τὴν Γλύκωνοσ ἀρετήν, ὅτι καὶ τοὺσ πάνυ τραχυνομένουσ φίλουσ ἀπεργάζεται. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 55:4)
  • ὥστε πολλάκισ ἐγὼ τὸν μὲν προσεῖπον Κάστορα Πολυδεύκην ὄντα, τὸν δὲ τῷ τοῦ Πολυδεύκουσ ὀνόματι. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 5:1)
  • Φαλῆσ ἑταῖρε Βακχίου ξύγκωμε νυκτοπεριπλάνητε μοιχὲ παιδεραστά, ἕκτῳ σ’ ἔτει προσεῖπον ἐσ τὸν δῆμον ἐλθὼν ἄσμενοσ, σπονδὰσ ποιησάμενοσ ἐμαυτῷ, πραγμάτων τε καὶ μαχῶν καὶ Λαμάχων ἀπαλλαγείσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)
  • ὡσ οὖν ἄρρενόσ τε τοῦ πρώτου καὶ θήλεοσ ὁμιλίᾳ τὰ πέντε γιγνόμενα γάμον οἱ Πυθαγόρειοι προσεῖπον. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 89)
  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν, ὡσ ἔφην, οἱ ποιηταὶ κολακεύοντεσ αὐτοῦ τὴν τύχην προσεῖπον· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 9 7:4)

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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