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ἀλάστορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάστορος ἀλάστορᾱ ἀλάστορον

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

Sense

  1. under the influence of an a)la/stwr: suffering cruelly

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • δι’ ἧσ ἵλεωσ ἡ δικαία καὶ πάτριοσ ἡμῶν πρόνοια τῷ ἔθνει γενηθεῖσα τιμωρήσειεν τὸν ἀλάστορα τύραννον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:24)
  • ὑπὲρ ὧν ἡ θεία δίκη μετῆλθε καὶ μετελεύσεται τὸν ἀλάστορα τύραννον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:22)
  • "βασάνιζε καὶ στρέβλου τὸν ἀλάστορα· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 13 2:4)
  • "βασάνιζε καὶ στρέβλου τὸν ἀλάστορα· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 13 7:2)
  • κἀκεῖ διενυκτέρευσεν ἐπὶ δεινῶν καὶ ἀπόρων λογισμῶν, ὥστε καὶ παρελθεῖν εἷσ τὴν Καίσαροσ οἰκίαν διενοήθη κρύφα καὶ σφάξασ ἑαυτὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἑστίασ ἀλάστορα προσβαλεῖν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 47 4:2)

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

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