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οἶκτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἶκτος

Etym.: oi)/ oh!

Sense

  1. pity, compassion, compassion for

Examples

  • ἔνεστι δ’ οἶκτοσ ἀμαθίᾳ μὲν οὐδαμοῦ, σοφοῖσι δ’ ἀνδρῶν· (Euripides, episode 1:38)
  • μῶν σ’ οἶκτοσ εἷλε, μητρὸσ ὡσ εἶδεσ δέμασ; (Euripides, episode 5:13)
  • οἶκτοσ γὰρ οὐ ταῦτ’, ἀλλὰ χαίρετ’, ὦ ξέναι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric2)
  • ὁ δ’ οἶκτοσ ὁ σὸσ ἐμοὶ κρείσσων πάρα καὶ μητρὶ τἠμῇ· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics7)
  • οὑτωσὶ μὲν εἰπεῖν, χρηστότησ ἐπέτριψεν αὐτὸν καὶ φιλανθρωπία καὶ ὁ πρὸσ τοὺσ δεομένουσ ἅπαντασ οἶκτοσ, ὡσ δὲ ἀληθεῖ λόγῳ, ἄνοια καὶ εὐήθεια καὶ ἀκρισία περὶ τῶν φίλων, ὃσ οὐ συνίει κόραξι καὶ λύκοισ χαριζόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ γυπῶν τοσούτων ὁ κακοδαίμων κειρόμενοσ τὸ ἧπαρ φίλουσ εἶναι αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἑταίρουσ ᾤετο, ὑπ’ εὐνοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν χαίροντασ τῇ βορᾷ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. pity

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

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