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ἀλάστωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάστωρ

Structure: ἀλαστωρ (Stem)

Etym.: Either from a)/lastos, or from a)la/omai, he that makes to wander.

Sense

  1. the avenging deity, destroying angel, plague
  2. he who suffers from such vengeance, an accursed wretch

Declension

Third 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)

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

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