Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πανδάκρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πανδάκρυτος πανδάκρυτον

Structure: πανδακρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. all-tearful
  2. allbewept, most miserable

Examples

  • ὦ πανδάκρυτοσ ἡ κτανοῦσα . (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 3:21)
  • ὦ θεομανέσ τε καὶ θεῶν μέγα στύγοσ, ὦ πανδάκρυτον ἁμὸν Οἰδίπου γένοσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:4)
  • τόδε τοι θαῦμά μ’ ἔχει, πῶσ ποτε πῶσ ποτ’ ἀμφιπλάκτων ῥοθίων μόνοσ κλύων, πῶσ ἄρα πανδάκρυτον οὕτω βιοτὰν κατέσχεν· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. all-tearful

  2. allbewept

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

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