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ἐλεεινός

eleeinos

finding pity, pitied

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Where it lives

Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys 2 · 26.7/10k
Against Philocrates 1 · 15.13/10k
Ars Poetica 8 · 7.91/10k
On The Refusal Of A Pension 1 · 7.03/10k
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 1 · 5.47/10k
Ion 2 · 4.99/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Rhetoric 13 · 3.02/10k
Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Against Stephanus 1 1 · 1.77/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐλεεινός · eleeinos — LSJ

finding pity, pitied, moving pity, piteous, piteous, piteous

finding pity, pitied, δός μʼ ἐς Ἀχιλλῆος φίλον ἐλθεῖν ἠδʼ ἐλεεινόν Il. 24.309; moving pity, piteous, 23.110, etc.; ἐλεινὸς εἰσορᾶν piteous to behold, A. Pr. 248; ἐλεινὸν ὁρᾷς thou lookest piteous, S. Ph. 1130 (lyr.); ἐσθῆτʼ ἐλεινήν Ar. Ach. 413; ἵνʼ ἐλεινοὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις φαίνοιντʼ εἶναι Id. Ra. 1063; ἐλεινοὶ οἱ ἀδικοῦντες Lys. 24.7; ποιῶν ἑαυτὸν ὡς ἐλεινότατον D. 21.186; -ότερος ἀνθρώποις τε καὶ θεοῖς Pl. Lg. 729e.

b having received mercy

having received mercy, LXX ll.cc.

2 showing pity, of pity, feeling of pity

showing pity, ἐ. δάκρυον a tear of pity, Od. 8.531, 16.219, Men. l.c.; οὐδὲν ἐλεινόν no feeling of pity, Pl. Phd. 59a, cf. R. 606b.

II pitiably

Adv. ἐλεεινῶς, Att. ἐλεινῶς, pitiably, S. Ph. 870, Ar. Th. 1063; ἐλεινῶς διακεῖσθαι D. 19.81: neut. pl. ἐλεεινά as Adv., Il. 2.314.

In the wild

ἐλεινὸς · eleinos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 248
ἐλεινήν · eleinēn Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 313)
ἐλεινοὶ · eleinoi Aristophanes, Frogs 1063
ἐλεινῶς · eleinōs Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (DIORISIS sentence 805)
ἐλεεινῶν · eleeinōn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13
ἐλεεινὸν · eleeinon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13

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