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

  • διήμαρτον οὔτ’ ἄλλο τι τῶν προσδοκηθέντων ἐξέφυγεν αὐτοὺσ ἐάσαντασ Ἀλκιβιάδην ἐπὶ τῶν τότε πραγμάτων καὶ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ ἐκείνησ, εἰ νῦν τὴν πόλιν παραλαβὼν ὀλίγου δέουσαν ἐκπεπτωκέναι τῆσ θαλάττησ, κατὰ γῆν δὲ μόλισ τῶν προαστείων κρατοῦσαν, αὐτὴν δὲ πρὸσ ἑαυτὴν στασιάζουσαν, ἐκ λυπρῶν ἔτι λειψάνων καὶ ταπεινῶν ἀναστήσασ οὐ μόνον τῆσ θαλάττησ τὸ κράτοσ ἀποδέδωκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πεζῇ νικῶσαν ἀποδείκνυσι πανταχοῦ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 32 5:1)

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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