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ἐλεεινόν (eleeinon)

ἐλεεινόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλεεινός, meaning “pitiable”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.707: σὺν δὲ κάρη κόλποις περικάββαλεν. ἔνθʼ ἐλεεινὸν

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 7.45.4: … ηρέ, καὶ ποίησον ἤδη ποτὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις ὅμοιον. ἡμαρτηκότος λαβὲ καὶ παραιτουμένου σχῆμα ταπεινὸν καὶ ἐλεεινόν, οἷον ἀπαιτοῦσιν αἱ συμφοραί. μὴ βιαζόμενος τοὺς κακῶς πεπονθότας, ἀλλʼ ὑπερχόμενος ἀξίου σώζεσθαι.

All forms of ἐλεεινός (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.