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ἐλεεῖ (eleei)

ἐλεεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλεάω, meaning “pity”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.119: βάλλετʼ, ἐπεὶ τὸν ξεῖνον ὁ δύσμορος οὐκ ἐλεεῖ μευ.

Aristophanes, Wasps 967: ὦ δαιμόνιʼ ἐλέει ταλαιπωρουμένους.

All forms of ἐλεάω (conjugation 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.