Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λύτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύτρον λύτρου

Structure: λυτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lu/w

Sense

  1. a price paid
  2. a ransom, ransom-money, as ransom, ransom
  3. an atonement, for
  4. a recompense

Declension

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

  • λύτρον ἀνδρὸσ ψυχῆσ ὁ ἴδιοσ πλοῦτοσ, πτωχὸσ δὲ οὐχ ὑφίσταται ἀπειλήν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 13:7)
  • "οὐκ ἄρα δεινὸν ἦν κρατοῦντασ ὑμᾶσ ἧτταν ἐξομολογεῖσθαι διὰ τὰσ ἀποσκευάσ, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ χρήμασιν, οὐκ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ τοῦ κρατεῖν ὄντοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν ἡγεμόνα πέμπετε λύτρον τῆσ ἀποσκευῆσ, ἐγώ μὲν οὖν ἀήττητοσ ἄγομαι, νικῶν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, ὑπὸ τῶν συμμάχων ἀπολλύμενοσ· (Plutarch, chapter 17 4:2)
  • τούσ μὲν γὰρ γεωργοῦντασ οὐδεὶσ ἠδίκει τὸ παράπαν, τοὺσ δ’ ἁλισκομένουσ λύτρον τι τεταγμένον ἔδει καταβαλεῖν, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐλάμβανον ἀφέντεσ, πρότερον δ’ οὐκ εἰσέπραττον, ἀλλ’ ὁ λαβὼν αἰχμάλωτον ἀπῆγεν οἴκαδε, καὶ μεταδοὺσ ἁλῶν καὶ τραπέζησ ἀπέπεμπεν οἴκαδε. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 175)
  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ γεωργοῦντασ οὐδεὶσ ἠδίκει τὸ παράπαν, τοὺσ δ’ ἁλισκομένουσ λύτρον τι τεταγμένον ἔδει καταβαλεῖν, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐλάμβανον ἀφέντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 17 1:2)
  • τόθι λύτρον συμφορᾶσ οἰκτρᾶσ γλυκὺ Τλαπολέμῳ ἵσταται Τιρυνθίων ἀρχαγέτᾳ, ὥσπερ θεῷ, μήλων τε κνισσάεσσα πομπὰ καὶ κρίσισ ἀμφ’ ἀέθλοισ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 7 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. a ransom

  2. an atonement

  3. a 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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