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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

  • τίσ αὐτὸν οὑπάγων ἀλαστόρων; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees36)
  • ἰὼ Ζεῦ, τίσ ἔλεοσ, τίσ ὅδ’ ἀγὼν φόνιοσ ἔρχεται, θοάζων σε τὸν μέλεον, ᾧ δάκρυα δάκρυσι συμβάλλει πορεύων τισ ἐσ δόμον ἀλαστόρων ματέροσ αἷμα σᾶσ, ὅ σ’ ἀναβακχεύει; (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ‐ μεγάλα δέ τισ ἁ δύναμισ δι’ ἀλαστόρων ἔπεσ’ ἔπεσε μέλαθρα τάδε δι’ αἱμάτων διὰ τὸ Μυρτίλου πέσημ’ ἐκ δίφρου. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 19)
  • καίτοι μ’ ἐσῄει δεῖμα, μή τινοσ κλύων ἀλαστόρων δόξαιμι σὴν κλύειν ὄπα. (Euripides, episode, iambic 5:3)
  • "καὶ τὰσ πάλαι ποιουμένασ ἀνθρωποθυσίασ οὔτε θεοὺσ ἀπαιτεῖν ἢ προσδέχεσθαι πιθανόν ἐστιν, οὔτε μάτην ἂν ἐδέχοντο βασιλεῖσ καὶ στρατηγοὶ παῖδασ αὑτῶν ἐπιδιδόντεσ καὶ καταρχόμενοι καὶ σφάττοντεσ, ἀλλὰ χαλεπῶν καὶ δυστρόπων ὀργὰσ καὶ βαρυθυμίασ ἀφοσιούμενοι καὶ ἀποπιμπλάντεσ ἀλαστόρων ἐνίων δὲ μανικοὺσ καὶ τυραννικοὺσ ἔρωτασ, οὐ δυναμένων οὐδὲ βουλομένων σώμασι καὶ διὰ σωμάτων ὁμιλεῖν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 143)

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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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