Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φεῦ

Interjection; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φεῦ

Sense

  1. ah! alas! woe!, alas for
  2. ah! oh!, oh, oh

Examples

  • φεῦ τῶν κακῶν, ὀτοτοῖ, παππαπαιάξ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 33:4)
  • τὸ δὲ πάν‐ των εὐμαρεῖν οὐδὲν γλυκὺ θνατοῖσιν, ἀλλ’ αἰεὶ τὰ φεύ‐ γοντα δίζηνται κιχεῖν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 16:2)
  • φεῦ, οἱαίσιν ἐν φροντίσι Κνώσιον ἔσχασεν στραταγέταν, ἐπεὶ μόλ’ ἀδίαντοσ ἐξ ἁλὸσ θαῦμα πάντεσσι, λάμ‐ πε δ’ ἀμφὶ γυίοισ θεῶν δῶρ’, ἀγλαό‐ θρονοί τε κοῦραι σὺν εὐ‐ θυμία νεοκτίτῳ ὠλόλυξαν, ἔ‐ κλαγεν δὲ πόντοσ· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 6:2)
  • φεῦ φεῦ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, lyric2)

Synonyms

  1. ah! alas! woe!

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

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