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λιτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιτός λιτή λιτόν

Structure: λιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: li/tomai

Sense

  1. suppliant, supplicatory

Declension

First/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

  • ὅσ μ’ ἐξοτρύνει παῖδ’ ἐμὸν πεῖσαι λιταῖσ νεκρῶν κομιστὴν ἢ λόγοισιν ἢ δορὸσ ῥώμῃ γενέσθαι καὶ τάφου μεταίτιον, μόνον τόδ’ ἔργον προστιθεὶσ ἐμῷ τέκνῳ πόλει τ’ Ἀθηνῶν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:6)
  • τὸ δὲ δημοσίαισ ἱκεσίαισ καὶ δεήσει πρέσβεων καὶ λιταῖσ ἱερέων ἀπηνῶσ χρησάμενον εἶτα χαρίσασθαι τῇ μητρὶ τὴν ἀναχώρησιν, οὐ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἦν τιμὴ, ἀλλ’ ἀτιμία τῆσ πατρίδοσ, οἴκτῳ καὶ παραιτήσει διὰ μίαν γυναῖκα σῳζομένησ, ὡσ οὐκ ἀξίασ σῴζεσθαι δι’ αὑτήν, ἐπίφθονοσ γὰρ ἡ χάρισ καὶ ὠμὴ καὶ ἀχάριστοσ ἀληθῶσ καὶ πρὸσ οὐδετέρουσ ἔχουσα τὸ εὔγνωμον· (Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus, chapter 4 4:1)
  • καὶ σέ, τὸν προμάτοροσ Ιοὖσ ποτ’ ἔκγονον Ἔπαφον, ὦ Διὸσ γένεθλον, ἐκάλεσ’ ἐκάλεσα βαρβάρῳ βοᾷ, ἰώ, βαρβάροισ λιταῖσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, epode1)
  • καὶ ἐν Λιταῖσ δὲ Πάτροκλοσ καὶ Ἀχιλλεὺσ πάντα εὐτρεπίζει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 31 2:3)
  • "λιταῖσ τισι καὶ προστροπαῖσ μετὰ δικαιολογίασ ἐκελεύσθη πορευθεὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ Τέττιγοσ οἴκησιν ἱλάσασθαι τὴν τοῦ Ἀρχιλόχου ψυχήν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 17 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. suppliant

Derived

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

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