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οἶκτος , ὁ, （οἴζω）
A.pity, compassion, “οἶ. δ᾽ ἕλε λαὸν ἅπαντα” Od.2.81, cf. 24.438 ; οἶ. τις ἴσχει ἀποκτεῖναι a feeling of pity prevents him from . . , Hdt.5.92.γ́, cf. Th.3.40 ; “οἴκτου πλέως” S.Ph.1074 ; “ἔχειν οἶκτον φρενί” Id.Aj.525 ; “ἐμοὶ γὰρ οἶ. δεινὸς εἰσέβη” Id.Tr.298 ; “ἐμοὶ μὲν οἶ. δεινὸς ἐμπέπτωκέ τις” Id.Ph.965 ; “θνητοὺς . . ἐν οἴκτῳ προθέμενος” A. Pr.241 ; “δι᾽ οἴκτου ἔχειν τινά” E.Hec.851 ; “εἰσῆλθέ μ᾽ οἶ. εἰ . . ” Id.Med. 931 : c. gen. objecti, compassion for . . , “πόθος καὶ οἶ. τῆς πόλιος” Hdt. 1.165, cf. E.Hec.519 : in A.Supp.486, οἰκτίσας ἰδών (Herm.) shd. be read for οἶκτος εἰσιδών.
2. lamentation, piteous wailing, Simon.4.3 ; “οἶ. οὔτις ἦν διὰ στόμα” A.Th.51 ; “τόνδε κλύουσαν οἶ.” Id.Ch.411(lyr.) ; “οἶκτον [οἰκτρὸν] ἀΐων” Id.Supp.59 (lyr.) ; “κλύω τινὸς οἴκτου” S.Tr.864 ; “οὐκ οἴκτου μέτα” Id.OC1636 : pl., παθόντος οἴκτοις by the wailings of the sufferer, A.Supp.386 (lyr.) ; “ἄϊον οἴκτους οὓς οἰκτίζῃ” E.Tr.155 (anap.) ; “τοὺς ὀδυρμοὺς ἐξαιρήσομεν καὶ τοὺς οἴ.” Pl.R.387d ; “οἴκτων λήγετε” E.Ph.1584, cf.And.1.48, Pl.Ap.37a,Lg.949b.
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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