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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

  • πειρώμενόσ τ’ ἀποφαίνειν βραχὺ μὲν ὑπάρχον τοῦ δήμου τὸ μὴ κατὰ γνώμην ἀδικοῦν, ὑπὸ δὲ μήκουσ ἀπορίασ ἠναγκασμένον αἰτεῖσθαι τὴν ἄφεσιν, τὸ δὲ πλεῖον ἀκολασίᾳ καὶ ὕβρει καὶ τῷ καθ’ ἡδονὰσ ζῆν ἐφεικὸσ καὶ δἰ ἁρπαγῆσ ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ὑπηρετεῖν ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ παρεσκευασμένον, διακρίνεσθαί τε οἰόμενοσ δεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐλεεινῶν τὰ πονηρὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν φιλανθρωπίασ δεομένων τὰ μίσουσ ἄξια, καὶ τοιούτουσ τινὰσ ἄλλουσ καθιστάμενοσ λόγουσ ἀληθεῖσ μέν, οὐχ ἅπασι δὲ τοῖσ ἀκούουσι κεχαρισμένουσ, οὐκ ἔπειθεν, ἀλλὰ θροῦσ ἦν ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ πολὺσ καὶ τῶν μὲν ἀγανακτήσεισ ὡσ ἐξαιμάττοντοσ τὰσ λύπασ, τῶν δ’ ἐξομολογήσεισ ὡσ οὐδὲν τῶν ἀληθῶν ἀποκρυπτομένου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 81 6:1)

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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