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ἔλεος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔλεος ἐλέου

Structure: ἐλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. pity, mercy, compassion
  2. object of pity

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐ καταπληκτέον ἐστίν, ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, οὐδὲ προετέον, ἐὰν σωφρονῆτε, τοῖσ Δημοσθένουσ ἐλέοισ τὴν κοινὴν καὶ δικαίαν ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀπολογίαν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 131:1)
  • ἐκείνη μὲν οὖν ὅταν ἔλθῃ ταὐτὸ ποιήσει τῇ ὑποκριτικῇ, ἐγκεχειρήκασιν δὲ ἐπ’ ὀλίγον περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰπεῖν τινέσ, οἱο͂ν Θρασύμαχοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐλέοισ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 1 7:1)
  • ὅτι, ἃν αὐτὸσ αἰσχύνοιο γελωτοποιῶν, ἐν μιμήσει δὲ κωμῳδικῇ ἢ καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἀκούων σφόδρα χαρῇσ καὶ μὴ μισῇσ ὡσ πονηρά, ταὐτὸν ποιεῖσ ὅπερ ἐν τοῖσ ἐλέοισ; (Plato, Republic, book 10 281:2)
  • καλοῦνται δὲ καὶ μέχρι νῦν τινεσ αὐτῶν Χοίρακοι καὶ Ἀμνοὶ καὶ Ἀρτυσίλεῳ καὶ Σήσαμοι καὶ Ἀρτυσίτραγοι καὶ Κρεωκόροι καὶ Ἰχθυβόλοι, τῶν δὲ γυναικῶν Κυμινάνθαι, κοινῇ δὲ πάντεσ Ἐλεοδύται διὰ τὸ τοῖσ ἐλεοῖσ ὑποδύεσθαι διακονοῦντεσ ἐν ταῖσ θοίναισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 73 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. pity

  2. object of pity

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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