Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προστρόπαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστρόπαιος

Structure: προστροπαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prostroph/

Sense

  1. turning oneself towards
  2. turns to a god for purification, a suppliant, suppliant
  3. a polluted person
  4. guiltiness
  5. a suppliant for vengeance
  6. to whom the murdered person turns, an avenger

Examples

  • καὶ τῶνδε προστρόπαιον αἷμα προσλαβὼν οὐδὲν κακῶσαι τοὺσ ἀναιτίουσ θέλω. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:37)
  • κἂν θάνῃσ γὰρ ἐνθάδ’ οὖσα, τοῖσ ἀποκτείνασί σε προστρόπαιον αἷμα θήσεισ· (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees12)
  • ὁρῶ δ’ ἐπ’ ὀμφαλῷ μὲν ἄνδρα θεομυσῆ ἕδραν ἔχοντα προστρόπαιον, αἵματι στάζοντα χεῖρασ καὶ νεοσπαδὲσ ξίφοσ ἔχοντ’ ἐλαίασ θ’ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον, λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνωσ ἐστεμμένον, ἀργῆτι μαλλῷ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 4:2)
  • ἄνασσ’ Ἀθάνα, Λοξίου κελεύμασιν ἥκω, δέχου δὲ πρευμενῶσ ἀλάστορα, οὐ προστρόπαιον οὐδ’ ἀφοίβαντον χέρα, ἀλλ’ ἀμβλὺσ ἤδη προστετριμμένοσ τε πρὸσ ἄλλοισιν οἴκοισ καὶ πορεύμασιν βροτῶν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:15)
  • οὐδ’ ἐπαισχύνει μ’ ὁρῶν τὸν προστρόπαιον, τὸν ἱκέτην, ὦ σχέτλιε; (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. turning oneself towards

  2. turns to a god for purification

  3. guiltiness

  4. a suppliant for vengeance

Related

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

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