Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πότμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πότμος

Etym.: PET, Root of pi/ptw

Sense

  1. that which befals one, one's lot, destiny, evil destiny, death
  2. evil, gifts, fortune

Examples

  • πολλάκισ γὰρ πρὸ μὲν τῆσ τελευτῆσ τοῖσ νοσοῦσιν ὑγίειαν ἐπηγγέλλετο, ἀποθανόντων δὲ χρησμὸσ ἄλλοσ ἕτοιμοσ ἦν παλινῳδῶν Μηκέτι δίζησθαι νούσοιο λυγρῆσ ἐπαρωγήν πότμοσ γὰρ προφανὴσ οὐδ’ ἐκφυγέειν δυνατόν σοι. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 28:2)
  • ‐ τίσ ποτ’ αἶσα, τίσ ἄρα πότμοσ ἐπιμένει τὸν ἄλκιμον τᾶσδε γᾶσ ἄνακτα; (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 24)
  • τίνα πότμοσ εὐτυχὴσ Ἰλιάδων μένει; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric6)
  • ἔχει πότμοσ νιν, ὥστ’ ἀπηλλάχθαι πόνων. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric30)
  • δίκα καὶ θεῶν παλίρρουσ πότμοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 14)

Related

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

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