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Headword: *)eleeino/s
Adler number: epsilon,781
Translated headword: pitiable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he who is] deserving of pity.[1]
"Becoming worthy of pity for their suffering, worthy of praise for their courage, for this became a great distress to the Romans, because so many were involved and [the household] ... had been utterly destroyed. And they set the day as [one] not to be mentioned."[2]
Greek Original:
*)eleeino/s: o( e)le/ous a)/cios. e)leeinoi\ tou= pa/qous, a)cie/painoi th=s a)reth=s geno/menoi, me/ga ga\r pa/qos *(rwmai/ois tou=to e)ge/neto kai\ plh/qous e(/neka kai\ panwleqri/as, kai\ th\n h(me/ran a)pofra/da ti/qentai.
Notes:
cf. generally epsilon 782.
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 24.309.
[2] Appian Italica fr. 6, quoted already at alpha 3642.
Keywords: definition; epic; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2006@01:01:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 14 March 2006@03:10:59.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 13 August 2012@03:37:23.
David Whitehead (coding) on 16 December 2015@08:00:32.

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