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ἄλαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλαστος ἄλαστη ἄλαστον

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

Etym.: lh/qomai

Sense

  1. not to be forgotten, insufferable, unceasing, incessantly
  2. accursed wretch!

Examples

  • ἰὼ τύχασ, σᾶσ τύχασ, μᾶτερ τεκοῦσ’ <ἄλαστα>, ἄλαστα μέλεα καὶ πέρα παθοῦσα σῶν τέκνων ὑπαί. (Euripides, choral, strophe 16)
  • ἄλαστα τἀν δόμοισι. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric2)
  • σὲ δ’, ὦ τέκνον, καὶ γάμοισι δὴ κλύω ζυγέντα παιδοποιὸν ἁδονὰν ξένοισιν ἐν δόμοισ ἔχειν ξένον τε κῆδοσ ἀμφέπειν, ἄλαστα ματρὶ τᾷδε Λα‐ ίῳ τε τῷ παλαιγενεῖ, γάμων ἐπακτὸν ἄταν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:3)
  • <ἰὼ ἰὼ> δῆτα ἰύγγ’ ἀγαθῶν ἑτάρων μοι ὑπομιμνήσκεισ <κινεῖσ> ἄλαστα στυγνὰ πρόκακα λέγων. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. accursed wretch!

Related

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

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