Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λυτήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυτήριος λυτήριον

Structure: λυτηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/w

Sense

  1. loosing, releasing, delivering, deliverer
  2. recompense

Examples

  • τὸ μεθύειν πημονῆσ λυτήριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 10 2:1)
  • ᾗ δ’ ἔχω, φίλαι, λυτήριον λώφημα, τῇδ’ ὑμῖν φράσω. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode11)
  • πρέπει χρυσάορα Φοῖβον ἀπύειν, ἔχοντα Πυθωνόθεν τὸ καλλίνικον λυτήριον δαπανᾶν μέλοσ χαρίεν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 24:1)
  • ὡσ ἐμοὶ τόδ’ ἂν κακῶν μόνον γένοιτο τῶν πάλαι λυτήριον. (Sophocles, episode 1:23)
  • καὶ τότ’ ἤδη κλυτὸν δωμάτων λυτήριον, θῆλυν οὐριοστάταν οὐδ’ ὀξύκρεκτον γοα‐ τᾶν νόμον θήσομεν· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. loosing

  2. recompense

Related

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

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