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φεῦ?

Interjection; Transliteration: pheu

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!

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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