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ἐλεεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεεινός ἐλεεινή ἐλεεινόν

Structure: ἐλεειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/leos

Sense

  1. finding pity, pitied or moving pity, pitiable, piteous, piteous, piteous
  2. shewing pity, pitying, of pity, feeling of pity
  3. pitiably

Examples

  • τὸ ἐντεῦθεν ἤδη ῥᾷον, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, ἁλώσεσθαι ἔμελλεν ὑπὸ γυναικὸσ καλῆσ καὶ πρὸσ ἡδονήν τε ὁμιλῆσαι ἐπισταμένησ καὶ ἐν καιρῷ δακρῦσαι καὶ μεταξὺ τῶν λόγων ἐλεεινῶσ ὑποστενάξαι καὶ ἀπιόντοσ ἤδη λαβέσθαι καὶ εἰσελθόντι προσδραμεῖν καὶ καλλωπίζεσθαι ὡσ ἂν μάλιστα ἀρέσειε, καί που καί ᾆσαι καί κιθαρίσαι. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 14:4)
  • τὰ παιδάρια παίζοντα τῶν βατράχων τοῖσ λίθοισ ἐφίεσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ βατράχουσ μηκέτι παίζοντασ ἀλλ’ ἀληθῶσ ἀποθνήσκειν, οὕτω κυνηγεῖν καὶ ἁλιεύειν, ὀδυνωμένοισ τερπομένουσ καὶ ἀποθνήσκουσι, τοῖσ δ’ ἀπὸ σκύμνων καὶ νεοσσῶν ἐλεεινῶσ ἀγομένοισ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 7 14:1)
  • καὶ τὸν οὐχ ἧττον ἐλεεινῶσ ἀποκρινόμενον, οὐχ ἕνα νομίζων φθείρεται πόλεωσ τόπον· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 6:3)
  • τὰ δὲ ἐκείνησ οἴχεται καὶ πάντα τρόπον αἰσχρῶσ καὶ ἐλεεινῶσ διέφθαρται· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 207:5)
  • τόν τε Ἐπίκουρον πολλὰ κατὰ τὸν λόγον ἠγνοηκέναι καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον κατὰ τὸν βίον, τό τε σῶμα ἐλεεινῶσ διακεῖσθαι, ὡσ πολλῶν ἐτῶν μὴ δύνασθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ φορείου διαναστῆναι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. finding pity

  2. pitiably

Related

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

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