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ἀνηλεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνηλεής ἀνηλεές

Structure: ἀνηλεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/leos

Sense

  1. without pity, unmerciful: -

Examples

  • Ὁ δὲ Ἕρμων τοὺσ ἀνηλεεῖσ ἐλέφαντασ ποτίσασ πεπληρωμένουσ τῆσ τοῦ οἴνου πολλῆσ χορηγίασ καὶ τοῦ λιβάνου μεμεστωμένουσ, ὄρθροισ ἐπὶ τὴν αὐλὴν παρῆν περὶ τούτων προσαγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:10)
  • οὐ γὰρ δὴ φείσονται τῶν σῶν οὐθενὸσ οἱ περὶ τῶν σφετέρων κινδυνεύοντεσ καὶ εἰσ τὰ ὅμοια κακῶσ ὑπὸ σοῦ πάσχοντεσ, ἀλλ’ εἰσ αἰκισμοὺσ αὐτῶν δεινοὺσ καὶ ὕβρεισ ἀνηλεεῖσ καὶ πᾶσαν ἄλλην ἰδέαν προπηλακισμοῦ χωρήσουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν συμφορῶν βιαζόμενοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 28 3:2)
  • καὶ ἀφορήτουσ ὕβρεισ ἀναγκασθησομένασ ὑπομενεῖν, μάλιστα δὲ παίδων ἔτι νηπίων οὐκ ἐπὶ τοιαύταισ ἐλπίσιν ἀνατραφέντων οἰκτεῖραι λώβασ καὶ προπηλακισμοὺσ ἀνηλεεῖσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 28 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. without pity

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

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