Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἐθαύμαζον, εἰ μηδέποτε καλλωπισαμένη περὶ θέατρον ἢ πομπὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ ἄχρηστον ἡγησαμένη τὴν πολυτέλειαν , ἐν τοῖσ σκυθρωποῖσ διεφύλαξασ τὸ ἀφελὲσ καὶ λιτόν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 2:1)
  • τῶν τε γὰρ ἀγρῶν τοὺσ φραγμοὺσ ἀφεῖλεν, ἵνα καὶ τοῖσ ξένοισ καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τοῖσ δεομένοισ ἀδεῶσ ὑπάρχῃ λαμβάνειν τῆσ ὀπώρασ, καὶ δεῖπνον οἴκοι παρ’ αὐτῷ λιτὸν μέν, ἀρκοῦν δὲ πολλοῖσ, ἐποιεῖτο καθ’ ἡμέραν, ἐφ’ ὃ τῶν πενήτων ὁ βουλόμενοσ εἰσῄει καὶ διατροφὴν εἶχεν ἀπράγμονα, μόνοισ τοῖσ δημοσίοισ σχολάζων. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 1:2)
  • οἰκείασ, ἀναστάντεσ ἄρτον λιτὸν ἐπὶ τυρῷ καὶ καρδάμῳ χαίρουσι καὶ ἀσμενίζουσιν ἐσθίοντεσ; (Plutarch, De virtute et vitio, chapter, section 4 4:1)
  • ὧν ἔτι προσφάτων ὄντων οἱ ἄνθρωποι μνημονεύοντεσ, ἄλλωσ δὲ τὸν μὲν Ἀγησίλαον ἀφελῆ καὶ λιτὸν ἐν ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ καὶ δημοτικὸν ὁρῶντεσ, ἐκείνῳ δὲ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁμοίωσ σφοδρότητα καὶ τραχύτητα καὶ βραχυλογίαν παροῦσαν, ὑπέπιπτον αὐτῷ παντάπασι καὶ μόνῳ προσεῖχον. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 7 2:2)
  • "οὕτωσ εἷσ Ἔρωσ ὁ γνήσιοσ ὁ παιδικόσ ἐστιν, οὐ πόθῳ στίλβων, ὡσ ἔφη τὸν παρθένιον Ἀνακρέων, οὐδὲ μύρων ἀνάπλεωσ καὶ γεγανωμένοσ, ἀλλὰ λιτὸν αὐτὸν ὄψει καὶ ἄθρυπτον ἐν σχολαῖσ φιλοσόφοισ ἤ που περὶ γυμνάσια καὶ παλαίστρασ περὶ θήραν νέων ὀξὺ μάλα καὶ γενναῖον ἐγκελευόμενον πρὸσ ἀρετὴν τοῖσ ἀξίοισ ἐπιμελείασ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 4 2:14)

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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