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ἔλεος , ,
A.pity, mercy, compassion, Il.24.44, etc.: also in pl., Pl.R. 6c6c, D.25.83; μ᾽ . τινος ἐσῆλθε pity for . ., E.IA491; “ἔλεον ποιήσασθαι ἐπί τινιD.24.111; “ἐλέου τυχεῖν παρά τινοςAntipho 1.27:—later ἔλεος, τό, Plb. 1.88.2, LXX Ge.19.19, etc.:pl., ἐλέη, τά, ib.Ps.16(17).7; . ποιεῖν μετά τινος ib.Ge.24.12, al. (but masc. is also found, ib.Ps.83 (84).12, Plb.33.11.3, Agatharch.83, Phld.Rh.1.65 S., Ep.Jac.2.13, etc.).
II. personified. worshipped at Athens, Sch.S.OC260; at Epidaurus, IG4.1282; “. ἐπιεικὴς θεόςTimocl.31.
III. object of compassion, piteous thing, E.Or.832.
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    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 27
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 111
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 83
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 491
    • Euripides, Orestes, 832
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.44
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 19.19
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    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 260
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.88.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 33.11.3
    • Old Testament, Psalm, 12
    • Old Testament, Psalm, 83
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