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ἄιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄιρος ἄιρᾱ ἄιρον

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

Sense

  1. unhappy Irus

Examples

  • αἶρε νῦν στρόφιον. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:73)
  • ἀλλ’ αἶρε ταχέωσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 2:19)
  • αἶρ’ αἶρε μᾶζαν ὡσ τάχιστα κανθάρῳ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ αἶρέ μοι τοῦτόν γε τῆσ ἰσωνίασ· (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode33)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα πᾶσ τισ θάρσοσ αἶρε ναυβάτησ, χώρει τε πρὸσ ναῦν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:11)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy Irus

Related

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

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