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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

  • ἐτύγχανε δὲ ὁ μὲν ἐπὶ θρόνου τινὸσ ὑψηλοῦ καθήμενοσ, παρειστήκεσαν δὲ αὐτῷ Ποιναὶ καὶ Ἐρινύεσ καὶ Ἀλάστορεσ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 11:1)
  • οὗτοι πάντεσ εἰσίν, ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τῶν αὐτῶν βουλευμάτων ἐν ταῖσ αὑτῶν πατρίσιν ὧνπερ οὗτοι παρ’ ὑμῖν, ἄνθρωποι μιαροὶ καὶ κόλακεσ καὶ ἀλάστορεσ, ἠκρωτηριασμένοι τὰσ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι πατρίδασ, τὴν ἐλευθερίαν προπεπωκότεσ πρότερον μὲν Φιλίππῳ, νῦν δ’ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, τῇ γαστρὶ μετροῦντεσ καὶ τοῖσ αἰσχίστοισ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν, τὴν δ’ ἐλευθερίαν καὶ τὸ μηδέν’ ἔχειν δεσπότην αὑτῶν, ἃ τοῖσ προτέροισ Ἕλλησιν ὁρ́οι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν καὶ κανόνεσ, ἀνατετροφότεσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 418:2)

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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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