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οἰκτρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκτρός οἰκτρή οἰκτρόν

Structure: οἰκτρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: oi)=ktos

Sense

  1. pitiable, in piteous plight
  2. pitiable, piteous, lamentable
  3. piteous

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ ἀδοξῶν καὶ ὑπερορῶν τοῦ ἐγκλήματοσ, ἐπεὶ συνῆλθε τὸ δικαστήριον ἧσ ἡμέρασ ποτὲ Καρχηδόνα παρεστήσατο, θυσίαν προύπεμψεν ἐσ τὸ Καπιτώλιον, καὶ ἐσ τὸ δικαστήριον αὐτὸσ παρῆλθεν ἐπὶ λαμπροῦ σχήματοσ ἀντὶ οἰκτροῦ καὶ ταπεινοῦ τῶν ὑπευθύνων, ὡσ εὐθὺσ ἐπὶ τῷδε πάντασ ἐκπλῆξαί τε καὶ ἐσ εὔνοιαν, ὡσ ἐπὶ χρηστῷ δὴ συνειδότι μεγαλοφρονούμενον, προσαγαγέσθαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 4:2)
  • τοῦ δὲ πάθουσ οἰκτροῦ καὶ δεινοῦ φανέντοσ οἱ περὶ τὸν Γλαυκίαν, οὔπω τοῦ δήμου συνελθόντοσ, ἅμ’ ἑῴ χειροτονοῦσι δήμαρχον τὸν Ἀπουλήιον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 4 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. pitiable

  2. pitiable

  3. piteous

Related

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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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