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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

  • κρείττονεσ δέ εἰσιν αἱ μικραὶ καὶ μάλιστα αἱ λιτῶσ ἑψόμεναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 2:1)
  • κατηγορίᾳ τολμημάτων καὶ ἀποδείξεων, ῥέοντα δὲ καὶ φερόμενον οὐχ ἁπλῶσ οὐδὲ λιτῶσ, ἀλλ’ ὁμοῦ πάθεσι πολλοῖσ μᾶλλον δὲ παντοδαποῖσ, εἰσ ψυχὰσ ὁμοίωσ πολλὰσ καὶ ποικίλασ καὶ διαφόρουσ τῶν ἀκροωμένων ἢ τῶν δικαζόντων, ἃσ δεῖ τρέψαι καὶ μεταβαλεῖν ἢ νὴ Δία πραῧναι καὶ ἡμερῶσαι καὶ καταστῆσαι· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 3 6:1)
  • γλαύκου φέρω κεφάλαια παμμεγέθη δύο, ἐν λοπάδι μεγάλῃ ταῦτα, λιτῶσ προσαγαγὼν χλόην, κύμινον, ἅλασ, ὕδωρ, ἐλᾴδιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 41 1:3)
  • ἑαυτὸν δὲ λιτῶσ καὶ σωφρόνωσ ἐκ τῶν τυχόντων διῴκει, θαυμαζόμενοσ ὅτι, μὴ μόνον Σικελίασ τε καὶ Καρχηδόνοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ὅλησ ἀποβλεπούσησ πρὸσ αὐτὸν εὐημεροῦντα, καὶ μηδὲν οὕτω μέγα τῶν τότε νομιζόντων, μηδ’ ἐπιφανεστέρασ περὶ ἄλλον ἡγεμόνα τόλμησ καὶ τύχησ γεγονέναι δοκούσησ, οὕτω παρεῖχεν ἑαυτὸν ἐσθῆτι καὶ θεραπείᾳ καὶ τραπέζῃ μέτριον, ὥσπερ ἐν Ἀκαδημείᾳ συσσιτῶν μετὰ Πλάτωνοσ, οὐκ ἐν ξεναγοῖσ καὶ μισθοφόροισ διαιτώμενοσ, οἷσ αἱ καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν πλησμοναὶ καὶ ἀπολαύσεισ παραμυθία τῶν πόνων καὶ τῶν κινδύνων εἰσίν. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 52 2:1)
  • ἰξῷ καὶ καλάμοισιν ἀπ’ ἠέροσ αὑτὸν ἔφερβεν Εὔμηλοσ, λιτῶσ, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἐλευθερίῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1561)

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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