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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

  • ἐν ἐσχάτῃ δὲ πνοῇ γενόμενοσ εἶπε. σὺ μὲν ἀλάστωρ ἐκ τοῦ παρόντοσ ἡμᾶσ ζῆν ἀπολύεισ, ὁ δὲ τοῦ κόσμου βασιλεὺσ ἀποθανόντασ ἡμᾶσ ὑπὲρ τῶν αὐτοῦ νόμων εἰσ αἰώνιον ἀναβίωσιν ζωῆσ ἡμᾶσ ἀναστήσει. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 7:9)
  • ἦλθ’ οὐχὶ μικρὰν θεὸν ἔχων αὑτοῦ μέτα ὁ τῆσδ’ ἀλάστωρ, εἴτ’ Ἀλέξανδρον θέλεισ ὀνόματι προσφωνεῖν νιν εἴτε καὶ Πάριν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:28)
  • ἆρ’ αὔτ’ ἀλάστωρ εἶπ’ ἀπεικασθεὶσ θεῷ; (Euripides, episode 5:25)
  • οὐδεὶσ ἀλάστωρ τοῖσ φίλοισ ἐκ τῶν φίλων. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:18)
  • πηγὰσ δ’ ἀμπαύει δροσερὰσ λευκῶν ἐκβάλλειν ὑδάτων πένθει παιδὸσ ἀλάστωρ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 16)

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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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