ἀλγεῖ (algei)

ἀλγεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἄλγος, meaning “pain, grief”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 1039: ἀλλ’ ἄλγος ἄλγει τοῦτ’ ἂν ἦν προσκείμενον,

Euripides, Andromache 420: ἧσσον μὲν ἀλγεῖ, δυστυχῶν δ’ εὐδαιμονεῖ.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo 1.2: … κόσον ἐς ζωὴν ἀναγκαῖον, τοσόνδε νούσῳ χαλεπωτάτη· καὶ τῶν ἀμφὶ τήνδε νούσων ἡ μὲν ἐσβολὴ εὐπαθὴς, ἐπὶ σμικρῷ ἄλγεϊ καὶ ἤχοισι ὤτων καὶ βάρεϊ. εἰ δὲ αὔξησιν προσλάβοι, καὶ τὰ τέλη ὀλέθρια. μὴ ὦν μηδὲ τὰ σμικρὰ ὑπερορῆν ἄλγεα· …

All forms of ἄλγος (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.