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πρόσκειμαι?

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: proskeimai

Principal Part: πρόσκειμαι πρόσκείσομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: on the ionic forms v. κεῖμαι

Sense

  1. to be placed or laid by or upon, to lie by or upon, were upon, to keep close to, lying near, the inside
  2. to lie beside, cling to, to be given to wife
  3. to be involved in or bound up with
  4. to be attached or devoted to, to put faith in, to be addicted to
  5. to press upon, be urgent with, with zeal
  6. to press close or hard, pursue closely, to follow close, the enemy
  7. to fall to, belong to, to be laid upon
  8. to be added or attached to

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • τῷ πρόσκειμαι δούλα τλάμων· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 18)
  • μήτ εἰήν ἔντιμος τούτοις μήτ, εἴ τῳ πρόσκειμαι χρηστῷ, ξυνναίοιμ εὔκηλος, γονέων ἐκτίμους ἴσχουσα πτέρυγας ὀξυτόνων γόων. (Sophocles, choral, epode5)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος λόγος ἔχων ὧδε, τῷ μάλιστα λεγομένῳ αὐτός πρόσκειμαι, Σκύθας τοὺς νομάδας οἰκέοντας ἐν τῇ Ἀσίῃ, πολέμῳ πιεσθέντας ὑπὸ Μασσαγετέων, οἴχεσθαι διαβάντας ποταμὸν Ἀράξην ἐπὶ γῆν τὴν Κιμμερίην τὴν γὰρ νῦν νέμονται Σκύθαι, αὕτη λέγεται τὸ παλαιὸν εἶναι Κιμμερίων, τοὺς δὲ Κιμμερίους ἐπιόντων Σκυθέων βουλεύεσθαι ὡς στρατοῦ ἐπιόντος μεγάλου, καὶ δὴ τὰς γνώμας σφέων κεχωρισμένας, ἐντόνους μὲν ἀμφοτέρας, ἀμείνω δὲ τὴν τῶν βασιλέων: (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ - πρόσκειμαι γὰρ πλέον τι ἢ οἱ λοιποὶ τῇ Ὁμήρου ποιήσει - δοκῶ τῇ Νιόβῃ τῶν παίδων μηδένα ὑπόλοιπον γενέσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be involved in or bound up with

  2. to press upon

  3. to press close or hard

  4. to fall to

  5. to be added or attached 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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