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ἀραῖος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: araios

Principal Part: ἀραῖος

Structure: ἀραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἀρά

Sense

  1. prayed to or entreated
  2. prayed against, accursed, laden with a curse or curses, under a curse
  3. cursing, bringing mischief upon

Examples

  • πρὸς οὓς ἀραῖος ἄγαμος ἅδ ἐγὼ μέτοικος ἔρχομαι. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, μενῶ ς ἐγὼ καὶ νέρθεν ὢν ἀραῖος εἰσαεὶ βαρύς. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 5:19)
  • μή νυν ὀναίμην, ἀλλ ἀραῖος, εἴ σέ τι δέδρακ, ὀλοίμην, ὧν ἐπαιτιᾷ με δρᾶν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:6)
  • βοᾷ διοίγειν κλῇθρα καὶ δηλοῦν τινα τοῖς πᾶσι Καδμείοισι τὸν πατροκτόνον, τὸν μητέρ - αὐδῶν ἀνόσι οὐδὲ ῥητά μοι, ὡς ἐκ χθονὸς ῥίψων ἑαυτὸν οὐδ ἔτι μενῶν δόμοις ἀραῖος, ὡς ἠράσατο. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:2)
  • ἀραῖος γὰρ γονεὺς ἐκγόνοις ὡς οὐδεὶς ἕτερος ἄλλοις, δικαιότατα. (Plato, Laws, book 11 122:1)

Synonyms

  1. prayed to or entreated

  2. prayed against

Derived

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

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