ἀθλία (athlia)

ἀθλία is an Ancient Greek form of ἄθλιος, meaning “wretched”. It is the vocative singular feminine adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Andromache 385: βίου καθίστης· καὶ λαχοῦσά γ’ ἀθλία

Euripides, Heracles 1033: ἄθλια κείμενα δυστάνου,

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 119: … ου φυγῆς ἐφανέρωσαν. ἐφʼ ᾧ ὅσον μὲν ἡμῖν ἐποιήσαντο πένθος, ὅσον δὲ τὸν γέλωτα τοῖς ἀεὶ τὸν εὐλαβῆ βίον ἐν τῇ ἀθλίᾳ ταύτῃ πόλει βδελυσσομένοις καὶ τέχνην πρὸς τὸ πιστευθῆναι καὶ σχηματισμὸν εἰς ἀπάτην τὸ πλάσμα τῆς σωφροσύνης …

All forms of ἄθλιος (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.