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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

  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἔρημοσ ἀθλίου πατρὸσ τάλασ ἔρημον οἶκον ὀρφανεύσομαι λαβών, οὐ πατρὸσ ἐν χερσὶ τοῦ τεκόντοσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ἀκούουσα μόνον, ὦ Λεόντιχε, ναυτιῶ καὶ φρίττω καὶ τὰσ σκιάσ μοι δοκῶ ὁρᾶν καὶ τὰ εἴδωλα τῶν πεφονευμένων καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ ἀθλίου λοχαγοῦ ἐσ δύο τὴν κεφαλὴν διῃρημένου. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:12)
  • ἀθλίου κυνὸσ κόμιστρ’ ἐσ Ἄργοσ συγκατάστησον μολών, λύπῃ τι παίδων μὴ πάθω μονούμενοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:28)
  • ὦ φίλα πεσήματ’ ἄθλι’ ἀθλίου πατρόσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:32)
  • λαβοῦ λαβοῦ δῆτ’, ἐκ δ’ ὄμορξον ἀθλίου στόματοσ ἀφρώδη πέλανον ὀμμάτων τ’ ἐμῶν. (Euripides, episode 1:6)

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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