Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄελπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄελπτος ἄελπτη ἄελπτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ελπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unexpectedly
  2. beyond hope, despaired of, Solon.
  3. hopeless, desperate
  4. beyond all hope

Examples

  • πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων, πολλὰ δ’ ἀέλπτωσ κραίνουσι θεοί· (Euripides, episode, anapests16)
  • ‐ ὦ χρόνῳ φανείσ, ἔχω σ’ ἀέλπτωσ ‐ κἀξ ἐμοῦ γ’ ἔχῃ χρόνῳ. (Euripides, episode 3:38)
  • τοῦτό σοι τέλοσ, ὦ καλὲ Φίλων, ἐγένετο τοῦ συμποσίου, ἢ ἄμεινον τὸ τραγικὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπειπεῖν, πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων, πολλὰ δ’ ἀέλπτωσ κραίνουσι θεοί, καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ’ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 48:1)
  • πολλαὶ μορφαὶ τῶν δαιμονίων, πολλὰ δ’ ἀέλπτωσ κραίνουσι θεοί· (Euripides, Helen, episode, anapests1)
  • ἐκ τῶν ἀέλπτων μᾶλλον ὤρχησεν φρένασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 37 3:4)
  • ἥκεισ ἀέλπτοσ ἐμποδὼν ἐμοῖσ γάμοισ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 2:21)
  • ἑνὸσ γὰρ εἰ λαβοίμεθ’, εὐτυχοῖμεν ἄν, εἴ ποθεν ἀέλπτοσ παραπέσοι σωτηρία κτανοῦσι μὴ θανοῦσιν· (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:8)

Synonyms

  1. unexpectedly

  2. hopeless

Related

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

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