Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • σὺ μὲν γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸν θεόν, ὡσ ἤγγειλαν οἱ τότε θεωροῦντεσ, προσεῖπεσ ἐν Δελφοῖσ αὐτῷ τούτῳ θωπεύσασ τῷ ῥήματι, καὶ γέγραφασ, ὡσ φασί,χαῖρε καὶ ἡδόμενον βίοτον διάσῳζε τυράννου· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 3 3:2)
  • σὺ μὲν γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸν θεόν, ὡσ ἤγγειλαν οἱ τότε θεωροῦντεσ, προσεῖπεσ ἐν Δελφοῖσ αὐτῷ τούτῳ θωπεύσασ τῷ ῥήματι χαῖρε καὶ γέγραφασ, ὥσ φασι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • τὴν ἄρ’ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ τοῖσ φίλοισ βοήθειαν λέγων καλὴν μὲν εἶναι, κακὴν δέ, οὐδὲν διαφερόντωσ λέγεισ ἢ εἰ προσεῖπεσ αὐτὴν ἀγαθὴν μέν, κακὴν δέ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 79:5)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ὅτε γ’ αὐτὸσ δύο ταῦτα διείλου, καὶ τὴν μὲν ἀληθινὴν προσεῖπεσ ῥητορικὴν, τὴν δὲ κολακικὴν, πῶσ ῥητορικῆσ καθάπαξ ὡσ κολακείασ κατηγορεῖσ, καὶ ὅπου τοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἀφῆκασ οὓσ ᾐτιάσω, πῶσ ἐλέγχεισ ῥητορικὴν ἣν αὐτὸσ καὶ χρηστὴν προσείρηκασ; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 157:6)

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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