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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

  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐλαίου γένεσιν, πόνων ἀρωγήν, ἀνῆκε τοῖσ ἐκγόνοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 29 2:3)
  • πόνων γὰρ ἀρωγὴν ἔλαιον ἀνθρώποισ ὑπὸ θεοῦ δεδόσθαι. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 57 5:3)
  • βαλλόμενοσ δὲ πανταχόθεν ἐκάλει πέμπων ἀρωγήν. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 42 4:1)
  • πράξασ ἀρωγήν· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode8)
  • ἀλλὰ κλύοντεσ, μάκαρεσ χθόνιοι, τῆσδε κατευχῆσ πέμπετ’ ἀρωγὴν παισὶν προφρόνωσ ἐπὶ νίκῃ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, anapests1)

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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