προσπολεμέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προσπολεμέω
προσπολεμήσω
Structure:
προς
(Prefix)
+
πολεμέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to carry on war against, be at war with another
Conjugation
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.
- διὸ καὶ τῷ Κάτωνι πάντεσ οἱ μεγάλοι προσεπολέμουν ὡσ ἐλεγχόμενοι· (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 45 1:1)
- οἱ μὲν οὖν προσεπολέμουν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ τὰ χώματα διήγειρον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 173:1)
- δισχίλιοι μὲν τῶν ὑφ’ Ἡρώδῃ ποτὲ στρατευσαμένων καὶ ἤδη καταλελυκότεσ ἐν αὐτῇ Ιοὐδαίᾳ συστάντεσ προσεπολέμουν τοῖσ βασιλικοῖσ ἀντιστατοῦντοσ αὐτοῖσ Ἀχιάβου τοῦ Ἡρώδου ἀνεψιοῦ, καὶ τῶν μὲν πεδίων εἰσ τὰ μετέωρα ἀνεωσμένου δι’ ἐμπειρίαν τὴν εἰσ τὰ πολεμικὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν, ταῖσ δὲ δυσχωρίαισ σώζοντοσ ὁπόσα δυνατά. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 323:1)
- ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τὸν αὐτῶν τῶν Γορτυνίων παραβόλωσ διακατεῖχον, καὶ προσεπολέμουν ἐκ τούτων ὁρμώμενοι τῶν τόπων τοῖσ ἐν τῇ πόλει. (Polybius, Histories, book 4, chapter 55 6:2)
- οἱ δὲ Γαλάται κατασχόντεσ τὴν Ἀρίσβαν καλουμένην ἐν τῇ τῶν Ἀβυδηνῶν χώρᾳ, λοιπὸν ἐπεβούλευον καὶ προσεπολέμουν ταῖσ περὶ τούτουσ τοὺσ τόπουσ ἐκτισμέναισ πόλεσιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 111 5:1)
Synonyms
-
to carry on war against
Derived
- ἀποπολεμέω (to fight off from, from)
- διαπολεμέω (to carry the war through, end the war, to fight it out)
- ἐκπολεμέω (to excite to war, make hostile)
- καταπολεμέω (to war down, to exhaust by war, subdue completely)
- πολεμέω (to be at war or go to war, make war, with)
- προπολεμέω (to make war for or in defence of, the guards or defenders of a country, the body intended to act as guards)
- συμπολεμέω (to join in war, with)
- συνδιαπολεμέω (to carry on a war along with, which remained with, throughout the war)