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ἀρωγός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρωγός

Structure: ἀρωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)rh/gw

Sense

  1. aiding, succouring, propitious, serviceable
  2. serviceable towards
  3. a helper, aid, a defender, advocate

Examples

  • τοῖσι δὲ φλεγματίῃσι πάντα ταῦτα ἀρωγά ἐστιν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , x.19)
  • ὁρ́α νυν εἴ σοι ταῦτ’ ἀρωγὰ φαίνεται. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:27)
  • ὅμωσ δ’, ἀδελφή, σοί θ’ ὑπούργησον τάδε ἐμοί τ’ ἀρωγὰ τῷ τε φιλτάτῳ βροτῶν πάντων, ἐν Αἵδου κειμένῳ κοινῷ πατρί. (Sophocles, episode 7:13)
  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ μαρτύριά τε καὶ τεκμήρια καλεῖσθ’, ἀρωγὰ τῆσ δίκησ ὁρκώματα· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 4:4)
  • Λύκει’ ἄναξ, τά τε σὰ χρυσοστρόφων ἀπ’ ἀγκυλᾶν βέλεα θέλοιμ’ ἂν ἀδάματ’ ἐνδατεῖσθαι ἀρωγὰ προσταχθέντα τάσ τε πυρφόρουσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ αἴγλασ, ξὺν αἷσ Λύκι’ ὄρεα διᾴσσει· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable towards

Related

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

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