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ὑπεῖπον

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεῖπον ὑπερῶ ὑπείρηκα

Structure:

Etym.: aor2 with no pres. in use, u(pagoreu/w being used instead

Sense

  1. to say as a foundation or preface, to premise, suggest
  2. to subjoin, add
  3. to suggest an explanation, explain, interpret

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

  • ἦν δέ τι καὶ τὸ φθονοῦν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν αὔξησιν ὄντι νέῳ πειρώμενον ἐνίστασθαι, μάλιστα μὲν οἱ συγγενεῖσ καὶ οἰκεῖοι τῆσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ μητρὸσ ὑβρίσθαι δοκούσησ, ὁ δὲ ἀδελφὸσ αὐτῆσ Λεωνίδασ καὶ θρασύτερόν ποτε τῷ Λυκούργῳ λοιδορηθείσ, ὑπεῖπεν ὡσ εἰδείη σαφῶσ μέλλοντα βασιλεύειν αὐτόν, ὑπόνοιαν διδοὺσ καὶ προκαταλαμβάνων διαβολῇ τὸν Λυκοῦργον, εἴ τι συμβαίη τῷ βασιλεῖ παθεῖν, ὡσ ἐπιβεβουλευκότα. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 3 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to subjoin

  2. to suggest an explanation

Related

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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