Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λυπρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυπρός λυπρή λυπρόν

Structure: λυπρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lupe/w

Sense

  1. wretched, poor, sorry
  2. causing pain, offensive, troublesome
  3. painful, distressing
  4. aegre ferebat

Examples

  • εἶναι γὰρ αὐτῷ πεπρωμένον ἐκ ταύτησ ὁρμώμενον τῆσ λυπρᾶσ καὶ ὀλίγησ τὸ πρῶτον οἰκήσεωσ πολλὴν καὶ ἀγαθὴν ἐπικτήσασθαι γῆν σὺν χρόνῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 56 5:1)
  • καὶ οὐδὲν ὤνησεν αὐτοὺσ οὔτε τῶν ἵππων τὸ τάχοσ οὔτε ὁ Ζεὺσ οὔτε ὁ Γανυμήδησ, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἐξ οὕτω λυπρᾶσ καὶ ἀδόξου πόλεωσ ἀπώλοντο, καὶ ἴσχυσεν ὁ τῆσ Ἰθάκησ πολίτησ περιγενέσθαι τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Ἰλίου πάντων, καὶ τὴν εὐρυάγυιαν ἅπασαν πορθῆσαι καὶ ἀνελεῖν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:3)
  • θηριώδουσ γὰρ οὔσησ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ παντελῶσ λυπρᾶσ, ἔτι δὲ ὑδάτων ῥύσεισ ναματιαίων ἐχούσησ ὀλίγασ, καθεύδουσι μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν δένδρων διὰ τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν θηρίων φόβον, ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν ἑωθινὴν πρὸσ τὰσ συρρύσεισ τῶν ὑδάτων μεθ’ ὅπλων φοιτῶντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ ἀποκρύβουσιν εἰσ τὴν ὕλην καὶ σκοπεύουσιν ἐπὶ τῶν δένδρων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 25 1:2)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἐταλαιπώρει ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν ὁδὸν διὰ λυπρᾶσ ἰών· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 2 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. wretched

  2. causing pain

  3. painful

Related

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

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