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ὑπερφύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερφύομαι

Structure: ὑπερφύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to surpass, excel

Conjugation

Present 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

  • τὸ τῶν ἱππέων ἀποθεωρῶν ἔργον, ὡσ δὲ ἐκείνουσ εἶδεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἁρμάτων πρὸ τῆσ τάξεωσ διαθεόντων εἰσ χεῖρασ ἐλθεῖν τοῖσ Καρχηδονίοισ οὐ δυναμένουσ, ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ μὴ συνταραχθεῖεν ἀναγκαζομένουσ ἐξελίττειν συνεχῶσ καὶ πυκνὰσ ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆσ ποιεῖσθαι τὰσ ἐπελάσεισ, ἀναλαβὼν τὴν ἀσπίδα καὶ βοήσασ ἕπεσθαι καὶ θαρρεῖν τοῖσ πεζοῖσ ἔδοξεν ὑπερφυεῖ φωνῇ καὶ μείζονι κεχρῆσθαι τῆσ συνήθουσ, εἴτε τῷ πάθει παρὰ τὸν ἀγῶνα καὶ τὸν ἐνθουσιασμὸν οὕτω διατεινάμενοσ, εἴτε δαιμονίου τινόσ, ὡσ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τότε παρέστη, συνεπιφθεγξαμένου. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 27 5:1)
  • ὑπερφυεῖ τινι ἄρα ὡσ μεγάλῃ βλάβῃ καὶ κακῷ θαυμασίῳ ὑπερβάλλουσα τἆλλα ἡ τῆσ ψυχῆσ πονηρία αἴσχιστόν ἐστι πάντων, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἀλγηδόνι γε, ὡσ ὁ σὸσ λόγοσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 186:6)

Synonyms

  1. to surpass

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

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