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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

  • σοὶ προστροπαίουσ, ὦ πάτερ, λιτὰσ ἔχων αὐτόσ τ’ ἐμαυτοῦ ξυμμάχων τε τῶν ἐμῶν, οἳ νῦν σὺν ἑπτὰ τάξεσιν σὺν ἑπτά τε λόγχαισ τὸ Θήβησ πέδιον ἀμφεστᾶσι πᾶν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:13)
  • καθάπερ γὰρ ἂν εἰ δίκην ἡ τύχη βουλομένη λαβεῖν ἐν καιρῷ παρ’ αὐτοῦ πάντων τῶν ἀσεβημάτων καὶ παρανομημάτων ὧν εἰργάσατο κατὰ τὸν βίον, τότε παρέστησέ τινασ ἐρινῦσ καὶ ποινὰσ καὶ προστροπαίουσ τῶν δι’ ἐκεῖνον ἠτυχηκότων· (Polybius, Histories, book 23, ii. res macedoniae 2:1)

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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