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ἐλέῳ (eleo)

ἐλέῳ is an Ancient Greek form of ἔλεος, meaning “pity, mercy”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.462: δάκρυον αἰνοτάτῳ ἐλέῳ ῥέε κηδοσύνῃσιν·

Plutarch, Pelopidas 28.4: … ἐθαύμαζεν, ὡς δὲ ἔγνω, προσηγόρευσεν αὐτὴν πατρόθεν ἦν γὰρ τῷ Ἰάσονι συνήθης καὶ φίλος, εἰπούσης δὲ ἐκείνης, ἐλεῶ σου τὴν γυναῖκα, καὶ γὰρ ἐγώ σε, εἶπεν, ὅτι ἄδετος οὖσα ὑπομένεις Ἀλέξανδρον.

All forms of ἔλεος (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.