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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

  • τὸ γὰρ σκοτεινὸν τῶν ἐνερτέρων βέλοσ ἐκ προστροπαίων ἐν γένει πεπτωκότων, καὶ λύσσα καὶ μάταιοσ ἐκ νυκτῶν φόβοσ ὁρῶντα λαμπρὸν ἐν σκότῳ νωμῶντ’ ὀφρὺν κινεῖ, ταράσσει, καὶ διώκεσθαι πόλεωσ χαλκηλάτῳ πλάστιγγι λυμανθὲν δέμασ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:9)

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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