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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

  • "τέκνον ἥδιστον, οἴχῃ μοι καὶ τέθνηκασ καὶ πρὸ ὡρ́ασ ἀνηρπάσθησ, μόνον ἐμὲ τὸν ἄθλιον καταλιπών, οὐ γαμήσασ, οὐ παιδοποιησάμενοσ, οὐ στρατευσάμενοσ, οὐ γεωργήσασ, οὐκ εἰσ γῆρασ ἐλθών οὐ κωμάσῃ πάλιν οὐδὲ ἐρασθήσῃ, τέκνον, οὐδὲ ἐν συμποσίοισ μετὰ τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν μεθυσθήσῃ. (Lucian, (no name) 13:1)
  • "τί μοι λοιδορῇ καὶ ἄθλιον ἀποκαλεῖσ καὶ δύσμορον πολύ σου βελτίω καὶ μακαριώτερον γεγενημένον; (Lucian, (no name) 16:4)
  • "φέρε τοίνυν, ἐπειδὴ ἐοίκασ ἀγνοεῖν, διδάξομαὶ σε θρηνεῖν ἀληθέστερον, καὶ δὴ ἀναλαβὼν ἐξ ὑπαρχῆσ βόα, τέκνον ἄθλιον, οὐκέτι διψήσεισ, οὐκέτι πεινήσεισ οὐδὲ ῥιγώσεισ. (Lucian, (no name) 16:10)
  • καὶ εἴ γε μὴ τῶν συνειλημμένων τισ ἀγανακτήσασ ἐπὶ τῇ τοῦ Ἀντιφίλου ἀναισχυντίᾳ καὶ τὸν ἄθλιον Ἀπελλῆν κατελεήσασ ἔφη μηδενὸσ αὐτοῖσ κεκοινωνηκέναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἀπετέτμητο ἂν τὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ παραπολελαύκει τῶν ἐν Τύρῳ κακῶν οὐδὲν αὐτὸσ αἴτιοσ γεγονώσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 3:2)
  • τὸν γὰρ Πολέμωνα τοῦτον, ὅν φησιν ἑαυτῆσ οἰκέτην εἶναι, πεφυκότα οὐ φαύλωσ οὐδὲ κατὰ τὴν Μέθην, ἀλλ’ οἰκεῖον ἐμοὶ τὴν φύσιν, προαρπάσασα νέον ἔτι καὶ ἁπαλὸν ὄντα συναγωνιζομένησ τῆσ Ἡδονῆσ, ἥπερ αὐτῇ τὰ πολλὰ ὑπουργεῖ, διέφθειρε τὸν ἄθλιον τοῖσ κώμοισ καὶ ταῖσ ἑταίραισ παρασχοῦσα ἔκδοτον, ὡσ μηδὲ μικρὸν αὐτῷ τῆσ αἰδοῦσ ὑπολείπεσθαι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 17:1)

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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