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πένθει (penthei)

πένθει is an Ancient Greek form of πένθος, meaning “grief, mourning”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 93 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 806: πένθει· δόμων γὰρ ζῶσι τῶνδε δεσπόται.

Euripides, Bacchae 44: Πενθεῖ δίδωσι θυγατρὸς ἐκπεφυκότι,

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 12: … πρὸς αὐτόν, εἰδὼς τὴν τοῦ βίου τελευτὴν ἐγγὺς οὖσαν οὐ σπεύδει τῶν ἡδονῶν πρὸς ἀπόλαυσιν οὐδʼ ὥσπερ οἱ πολλοὶ πενθεῖ τὸν φίλον ἀπραξίᾳ καὶ παραλείψει τῶν καθηκόντων; ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν ἡδονῶν διὰ τὴν λύπην ἀπέχεται, ταῖς δὲ πράξεσι …

All forms of πένθος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.