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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

  • "ἄδηλοσ δ’ ὢν ὁ πόλεμοσ τοῦτ’ ἔχει πρόδηλον, ὅτι σοὶ νικῶντι μὲν ἀλάστορι τῆσ πατρίδοσ εἶναι περίεστιν, ἡττώμενοσ δὲ δόξεισ ὑπ’ ὀργῆσ εὐεργέταισ ἀνδράσι καὶ φίλοισ τῶν μεγίστων συμφορῶν αἴτιοσ γεγονέναι. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 35 1:8)
  • πόλεσι γὰρ ἐσ τοσοῦτο ἡκούσαισ ἀξιώματοσ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν ὁρ́ων τῆσ χώρασ τὰ μὲν παλαιότερα ἐσ οὐκ ἀφανῆ πόλεμον καὶ ἔργα οὕτωσ ἀφειδῆ προαχθείσαισ, κριθείσαισ δὲ καὶ ὕστερον παρὰ δικαστῇ κοινῷ Φιλίππῳ τῷ Ἀμύντου, αὐτὸσ μέν σφισιν ὁ Γάλλοσ ἀπηξίωσε δικαστὴσ καταστῆναι, Καλλικράτει δὲ ἁπάσησ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀνδρὶ ἀλάστορι ἐπιτρέπει τὴν κρίσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 3:1)

Related

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

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