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Ἐλεήμων · merciful, pitiful; susceptible (ε 784) · Suda

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Near ε784

ε780eledone
ε781pitiable
ε782pitiably
ε783they were plundering, they were rustling
ε784merciful, pitiful; susceptible
ε785almsgiving, charity, mercy
ε786eleleu, war-cry
ε787whirling around
ε788they were whirled around

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε784

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Ἐλεήμων

merciful, pitiful; susceptible

Translated by Catharine Roth16 Mar 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

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2 notes · 24 words

Translation

[e)leh/mwn, genitive] e)leh/monos.
Meaning weaker [than]. "Alas, how I am always susceptible to golden vessels!"¹
And it shortens [the omega in the oblique cases].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐλεήμων, ἐλεήμονος. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἥττων. οἴμ', ὡς ἐλεήμων εἴμ' ἀεὶ τῶν χρυσίδων. καὶ συστέλλει.

Betacode

*)eleh/mwn, e)leh/monos. a)nti\ tou= h(/ttwn. oi)/m', w(s e)leh/mwn ei)/m' a)ei\ tw=n xrusi/dwn. kai\ suste/llei.

Notes (2)

The headword adjective is normally used absolutely, and with the sense (appropriate to its etymology) of merciful or pitiful; but here Aristophanes (below) uses it with a genitive, to mean having a susceptibility or weakness for something.
1Aristophanes, Peace 425 (web address 1), with scholion. (Hermes is speaking, and the final noun comes as an unexpected joke.) For h(/sswn/h(/ttwn in this sense of 'unable to resist' cf. eta 630. ↩
2Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε782Ἐλεεινῶςpitiably ε783Ἐλεηλάτουνthey were plundering, they were rustling ε784Ἐλεήμωνmerciful, pitiful; susceptible ε785Ἐλεημοσύνηalmsgiving, charity, mercy ε786Ἐλελεῦeleleu, war-cry

Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Dec 2015

16 Dec 2015cosmetics — Catharine Roth
16 Dec 2015tweaked hw and tr; expanded notes — David Whitehead
13 Aug 2012another note and keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
17 Mar 2006tweaked tr; another keyword — David Whitehead
16 Mar 2006Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐλεήμων (Adler number epsilon 784), trans. Catharine Roth, 16 Mar 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/784

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗