Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πωλέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πωλέομαι

Structure: πωλέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Frequent. of pole/omai

Sense

  1. to go up and down, go to and fro, to go or come frequently

Examples

  • παῦρα δὲ Θαύμαντοσ θυγάτηρ πόδασ ὠκέα Ἶρισ ἀγγελίην πωλεῖται ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 74:4)
  • "τῶν δὲ στρόμβων καὶ χοιρίνων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κογχυλίων ποικίλαι αἱ ἰδέαι καὶ πολὺ διάφοροι τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν γίνονται δὲ πορφύραι τε καὶ ὀστρέων πολὺ πλῆθοσ τῶν λοιπῶν ἓν δὲ ἴδιον ὃ καλοῦσιν ἐκεῖνοι βέρβερι, ἐξ οὗ ἡ μαργαρῖτισ λίθοσ γίνεται, αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶ πολυτελὴσ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πωλεῖται περὶ Πέρσασ τε καὶ τοὺσ ἄνω τόπουσ πρὸσ χρυσίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 457)
  • Κατηγορῶν δὲ τῆσ πολυτελείασ ἔφη χαλεπὸν εἶναι σωθῆναι πόλιν, ἐν ᾗ πωλεῖται πλείονοσ ἰχθὺσ ἢ βοῦσ. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 8 1:3)
  • ὦ κοῦραι, τίσ δ’ ὔμμιν ἀνὴρ ἥδιστοσ ἀοιδῶν ἐνθάδε πωλεῖται, καὶ τέῳ τέρπεσθε μάλιστα; (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 16:3)
  • θαυμάζειν δὲ πῶσ σῴζεται πόλισ, ἐν ᾗ πωλεῖται πλείονοσ ἰχθὺσ ἢ βοῦσ. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)

Synonyms

  1. to go up and down

Derived

Similar forms

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

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