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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

  • καὶ νῦν Αἵδασ τὸν ἐμὸν ἔχει μόχθον ἀθλίασ, ἐγὼ δὲ γηροβοσκὸν οὐκ ἔχω, τεκοῦσ’ ἁ τάλαινα παῖδα. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, lyric2)
  • ὦ τῆσ ἀώρου θύγατερ ἀθλίασ τύχησ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 5:22)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν Ἀκτέων’ Ἀρισταίῳ ποτὲ τεκοῦσαν εἶδον Αὐτονόην Ἰνώ θ’ ἅμα ἔτ’ ἀμφὶ δρυμοὺσ οἰστροπλῆγασ ἀθλίασ, τὴν δ’ εἶπέ τίσ μοι δεῦρο βακχείῳ ποδὶ στείχειν Ἀγαύην, οὐδ’ ἄκραντ’ ἠκούσαμεν· (Euripides, episode 2:3)
  • οὗτοσ κέκληται πόσισ ἐμὸσ τῆσ ἀθλίασ. (Euripides, episode 5:2)
  • συμφορὰσ γὰρ ἀθλίασ ἐκ τῶν πάροιθεν τὰσ παρεστώσασ κλύω, εἰ τὴν μὲν αἱρεθεῖσαν ἐκ Τροίασ ἄγων ἥκω δάμαρτα καὶ κατ’ ἄντρα σῴζεται, ὄνομα δὲ ταὐτὸν τῆσ ἐμῆσ ἔχουσά τισ δάμαρτοσ ἄλλη τοισίδ’ ἐνναίει δόμοισ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 4:9)

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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