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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

  • ὦ τέκνον τέκνον, αἰαῖ, κατάρχομαι γόων, βακχεῖον ἐξ ἀλάστοροσ ἀρτιμαθῆ νόμον. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:3)
  • ὦ Τυνδάρειον ἔρνοσ, οὔποτ’ εἶ Διόσ, πολλῶν δὲ πατέρων φημί σ’ ἐκπεφυκέναι, Ἀλάστοροσ μὲν πρῶτον, εἶτα δὲ Φθόνου, Φόνου τε Θανάτου θ’ ὅσα τε γῆ τρέφει κακά. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:12)
  • ἐγὼ κάκιστοσ ἦν ἄρ’ Ἀργείων ἀνήρ, ἐγὼ τὸ μηδέν, Μενέλεωσ δ’ ἐν ἀνδράσιν, ὡσ οὐχὶ Πηλέωσ, ἀλλ’ ἀλάστοροσ γεγώσ, εἴπερ φονεύει τοὐμὸν ὄνομα σῷ πόσει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:1)

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

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