Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, οἰκτρός

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2. of things, pitiable, lamentable, “ἕτερα πεπόνθαμεν -ότερα” Hdt.7.46 ; “οἰκτρὰ λογοποιοῦντες” X.Cyr.2.2.13 ; “συμφορὰ οἰ.” Pi.O.7.77 ; “-ότατος θάνατος” Id.P.3.42 ; πημοναί, ἄλγος, A.Pr.240,435 (lyr.), etc.; “οἰκτρὰ γὰρ βόσκειν [ἡ κήρ]” S.Ph.1167 (lyr.) ; οἰκτρόν [ἐστι] c. inf., A.Th.321 (lyr.).

3. in contemptuous sense, οἰ. τέκνα sorry fellows, Aus.Epigr.57 ; “παιδίσκη” Porph.Chr.23 ; “οἰ. τραγῳδία” miserable, Eust.1691.34.

II. in act. sense, wailing piteously, piteous, “-οτάτην δ᾽ ἤκουσα ὄπα” Od.11.421, cf. S.El.1067 (lyr.) ; οἰκτρᾶς γόον ὄρνιθος, of the nightingale, Id.Aj. 629(lyr.) : neut. pl. as Adv., “οἴκτρ᾽ ὀλοφυρομένη” Od.4.719, cf. 10.409, al. : regul. Adv. “οἰκτρῶς” A.Pers.688, S.El.102 (anap.), al., And.4.39, Lys.32.10 : Comp. “-ότερα” AP10.65 (Pall.): Sup. “-ότατα” E.Hel. 1209.—Besides οἰκτρότερος, οἰκτρότατος, we find Sup. οἴκτιστος (q. v.) ; οἰκτότερον is f.l. in Hdt.7.46.

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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