Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πυρὰν δὲ χαλκοτειχέοσ π[ροπάροι]θεν αὐ[λᾶσ ναήσατ’, ἔνθα σὺ[ν ἀλόχῳ] τε κεδνᾷ σὺν εὐπλοκάμοισ τ’ ἐπέβαιν’ ἄλα[στον θυγατράσι δυρομέναισ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 3 7:2)
  • Ῥέην δ’ ἔχε πένθοσ ἄλαστον. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 44:5)
  • Τρῶα δὲ πένθοσ ἄλαστον ἔχε φρένασ, οὐδέ τι ᾔδει, ὅππη οἱ φίλον υἱὸν ἀνήρπασε θέσπισ ἀέλλα· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 22:2)
  • ἐναισίου δὲ σοῦ τύχοιμι, μηδ’ ἄλαστον ἄνδρ’ ἰδὼν ἀκερδῆ χάριν μετάσχοιμί πωσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 23)
  • αἰαῖ, φεῦ, ἔστιν ἔστι νῷν δὴ οὐ τὸ μέν, ἄλλο δὲ μή, πατρὸσ ἔμφυτον ἄλαστον αἷμα δυσμόροιν στενάζειν, ᾧτινι τὸν πολὺν ἄλλοτε μὲν πόνον ἔμπεδον εἴχομεν, ἐν πυμάτῳ δ’ ἀλόγιστα παροίσομεν ἰδόντε καὶ παθόντε. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)

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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