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ἠλεός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠλεός ἠλεή ἠλεόν

Structure: ἠλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)la/omai

Sense

  1. astray, distraught, crazed, foolishly
  2. distracting, crazing

Examples

  • τὸν γὰρ οἶνον Ὅμηροσ οὐκ ἠλεὸν ὥσπερ ἠλίθιον καλεῖ καὶ ματαιοποιόν, οὐδὲ κελεύει σκυθρωπὸν εἶναι μήτε ᾄδοντα μήτε γελῶντα μήτ’ ἐρρύθμωσ ποτὲ καὶ πρὸσ ὄρχησιν τρεπόμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 8 1:1)

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

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