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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

  • ἄνεχε χέρασ, ἄνεχε λόγον, ἱεί λιτὰσ ἐσ θεούσ, τύχᾳ σοι τύχᾳ κασίγνητον ἐμβατεῦσαι πόλιν. (Euripides, episode, lyric3)
  • σὺ δ’ ἀμφὶ βωμίουσ λιτὰσ ‐ κόρον ἔχουσ’ ἐμῶν κακῶν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:6)
  • οἶμαι δὲ πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν, εἰ κατ’ ὄμματα ἐξιστόρουν νιν, μητέρ’ εἰ κτεῖναι χρεών, πολλὰσ γενείου τοῦδ’ ἂν ἐκτεῖναι λιτὰσ μήποτε τεκούσησ ἐσ σφαγὰσ ὦσαι ξίφοσ, εἰ μήτ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀναλαβεῖν ἔμελλε φῶσ, ἐγώ θ’ ὁ τλήμων τοιάδ’ ἐκπλήσειν κακά. (Euripides, episode 4:6)
  • τῶν σῶν δὲ γονάτων πρωτόλεια θιγγάνω ἱκέτησ, ἀφύλλου στόματοσ ἐξάπτων λιτάσ· (Euripides, episode, iambic 2:5)
  • ὦ συγγένεια πατρὸσ ἐμοῦ, κἀμὰσ λιτάσ, Ἀγάμεμνον, εἰσάκουσον· (Euripides, episode, anapests 7:7)

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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