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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

  • τὴν χρῆσιν δὲ τῶν λιτῶν καὶ περιττῶν προηγουμένωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1939)
  • τοιαῦτ’ ἀυτεῖ καὶ θεοὺσ γενεθλίουσ καλεῖ πατρῴασ γῆσ ἐποπτῆρασ λιτῶν τῶν ὧν γενέσθαι πάγχυ Πολυνείκουσ βία. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode3)
  • τῶν δὲ Συρακοσίων τὰσ μὲν πολυτελεῖσ ἐκφορὰσ νόμῳ καταλελυκότων καὶ τὰσ εἰωθυίασ δαπάνασ εἰσ τοὺσ τελευτῶντασ γίνεσθαι περιῃρηκότων, ἐγγεγραμμένων δὲ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ καὶ τῶν παντελῶσ λιτῶν ἐνταφίων, ὁ βασιλεὺσ Γέλων βουλόμενοσ τὴν τοῦ δήμου σπουδὴν ἐν ἅπασι διαφυλάττειν, τὸν περὶ τῆσ ταφῆσ νόμον ἐφ’ ἑαυτοῦ βέβαιον ἐτήρησεν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 37 14:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ [ἂν] αἰσχύνεσθαι γυμνοὺσ ὥσπερ αὐτὸν διάγειν ἀπὸ λιτῶν ζῶντασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 130:7)

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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