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ἄθλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθλιος

Structure: ἀθλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: attic contr. of epic a)e/qlios, see also a)/eqlon, a)=qlon

Sense

  1. gaining the prize, running for it, race-, of discord
  2. struggling, wretched, miserable, miserably
  3. pitiful, wretched
  4. wretched, sorry, wretched

Examples

  • οὐκ εἶ νεκροῖσι καὶ γυναιξὶν ἀθλίαισ προσωφελήσων, ὦ τέκνον, κεχρημέναισ; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, iambic24)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἤλθετε τιμωρήσοντεσ ἡμῖν παρθένοισ οὔσαισ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀδικοῦντασ, ἀλλὰ νῦν ἀνδρῶν ἀποσπᾶτε γαμετὰσ καὶ τέκνων μητέρασ, οἰκτροτέραν βοήθειαν ἐκείνησ τῆσ ἀμελείασ καὶ προδοσίασ βοηθοῦντεσ ἡμῖν ταῖσ ἀθλίαισ. (Plutarch, chapter 19 4:1)
  • ἓν τοῦτό σε ἀξιοῦμεν ἤδη κείμενοι καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ὄντεσ μηδεμίαν ἡμῶν ὕβριν προσθεῖναι ταῖσ συμφοραῖσ μηδὲ βαρεῖ ποδὶ ταῖσ ἀθλίαισ ἐπεμβῆναι τύχαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 16, chapter 2 2:1)
  • ἔσται γ’ οὐδ’ ὑμῖν ἀσφαλὴσ ὁ βίοσ, οἷσ ἐνεγγύησε Ταρκύνιοσ τὰσ ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρασ ἐκείνουσ ὑπεριδών, ἐὰν οἱ φονεύσαντεσ αὐτὸν τὴν ἀρχὴν κατάσχωσιν, οὐδὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ αὐτοῦ φίλοισ καὶ συγγενέσιν οὐδ’ ἡμῖν ταῖσ ἀθλίαισ γυναιξίν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 4 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. struggling

  2. pitiful

  3. wretched

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

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