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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

  • πρευμενῆ δ’ ἄνωγέ νιν ἐμοί τε καὶ σοὶ καὶ πόσει γνώμην ἔχειν τοῖν τ’ ἀθλίοιν τοῖνδ’, οὓσ ἀπώλεσεν θεόσ. (Euripides, episode 6:7)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐκ θεῶν του κἀλιτηρίου φρενὸσ εἰσῆλθε τοῖν τρὶσ ἀθλίοιν ἔρισ κακή, ἀρχῆσ λαβέσθαι καὶ κράτουσ τυραννικοῦ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:13)
  • εὐδαιμονέστεροσ μὲν τοίνυν οὐδέποτε ἔσται οὐδέτεροσ αὐτῶν, οὔτε ὁ κατειργασμένοσ τὴν τυραννίδα ἀδίκωσ οὔτε ὁ διδοὺσ δίκην ‐ δυοῖν γὰρ ἀθλίοιν εὐδαιμονέστεροσ μὲν οὐκ ἂν εἰή ‐ ἀθλιώτεροσ μέντοι ὁ διαφεύγων καὶ τυραννεύσασ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 161:7)

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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