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ἐλπ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, (v. ἔλπω)
A.hope, expectation (“δόξα μελλόντων” Pl.Lg. 644c), “ἔτι γὰρ καὶ ἐλπίδος αἶσα” Od.16.101, 19.84; personified, Hes. Op.96: pl., Pi.P.2.49, etc.; πολλῶν ῥαγεισῶν ἐλπίδων after the wreck of many hopes, A.Ag.505; “ἔτι ἐν αὐτοῖς εἰσὶν ἐλπίδες, νέοι γάρ” Pl.Prt. 328d; “κεναῖσιν ἐλπίσιν θερμαίνεται” S.Aj.478; expectancy, Id.OT771 (pl.), OC1749 (lyr., pl.), Pi.N.1.32 (pl.), etc.:—Constr., in Att., with gen. both of subject and object, as (where both are conjoined) Πελοποννησίων τὴν ἐλπίδα τοῦ ναυτικοῦ the hope of the P.in their navy, Th. 2.89; also “αἱ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐς ὑμᾶς ἐλπίδες” Id.3.14; ὑμέτεραι ἐλπίδες,= ἐς ὑμᾶς, Id.1.69; ἐλπίδ᾽ ἔχω, = ἐλπίζω, with fut. inf., “μὴ οὐ δώσειν δίκην” Hdt.6.11, etc.: with aor.inf., “κλέος εὑρέσθαι” Pi.P.3.111: with ὡς and fut. inf., S.OC385; “ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν” E.Or.52; “περὶ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ψυχῆς οὐ πολλὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχω” D.H.5.27; ἐν ἐλπίδι εἰμί, c. fut. inf., Th.7.46; “ἐν ἐλπίσι καλαῖς γενόμενος” Plu.Brut.40; ἐλπίς [ἐστί] μοι with acc. and fut. inf. or aor., “ἐλπίς τις αὐτὸν ἥξειν” A.Ag.679; “τοσοῦτόν γ᾽ ἐστί μοι τῆς ἐλπίδος, τὸν ἄνδρα . . προσμεῖναι” S.OT836; “πλείων ἐλπὶς φιλίαν ἢ ἔχθραν γενέσθαι” Pl.Phdr.232e: c. pres. inf., Id.Sph.250e: folld. by ὡς . ., E.Tr.487; “ἐς ἐλπίδα ἐλθεῖν τινος” Th.2.56; “ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδας ἀφανεῖς καθίστασθαι” Id.5.103; “ἐλπίδα λαβεῖν” X.Cyr.4.6.7; ἐλπίδας μεγάλας ἔν τινι ἔχειν ib.1.4.25, cf. Isoc.4.121; τίν᾽ ὑπάγεις μ᾽ ἐς ἐλπίδ᾽; E.Hel. 826; ἐλπίδας ἐμποιεῖν ἀνθρώποις, ὑποθεῖναί τισι, X.Cyr.1.6.19, HG4.8.28; “ἐλπίδας μεγίστας παρέχεται ποιῆσαι” Pl.Smp.193d; ἐλπίδα or ἐλπίδας ὑπογράφειν, Epicur.Ep.3p.65U., Plb.5.36.1; “ἀποκεκομμένης τῆς ἐλπίδος” Id.3.63.8, cf. A.R.4.1272; ἐκτὸς ἐλπίδος beyond hope, S.Ant.330; “ἀπ᾽ ἐλπίδος πεσεῖν” A.Ag.999; παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα ib.899, S.Ph. 882: prov., “πεινῶμεν ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐλπίσιν” Antiph.123.7; “κάπτοντες αὔρας ἐλπίδας σιτούμενοι” Eub.10.7; “αἱ δ᾽ ἐλπίδες βόσκουσι τοὺς κενούς” Men. Mon.42.
2. object of hope, a hope, “Ὀρέστης, ἐ. δόμων” A.Ch.776; ὑμεῖς, ἡ μόνη ἐ. Th.3.57; Εὔτυχος, ἡ γονέων ἐ. IG3.1311.
3. reason to expect or believe, πολλὴ ἐ. κτήσασθαι, νοητὸν εἶναι, Pl.Phd. 67b, Lg.898d.
II. anxious thought on the future, boding, A. Ag.1434, Hp.Coac.267, E.Or.859, Pl.Lg.644c.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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