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πένθος , εος, τό,
A.grief, sorrow, Il.11.658, etc.; τινος for one, Od. 18.324, etc.; “π. ἄλαστον ἔχουσα” Il.24.105 ; “π. λαγχάνειν” S.Fr.659 ; Τρῶας λάβε π. Il.16.548, etc. ; “μέγα π. Ἀχαιίδα γαῖαν ἱκάνει” 1.254, etc.; “πένθεϊ δ᾽ ἀτλήτῳ βεβολήατο πάντες” 9.3 ; “θυμὸς ἐτείρετο π. λυγρῷ” 22.242, etc.
2. esp. of grief for the dead, mourning, “τοκεῦσι γόον καὶ π. ἔθηκας” 17.37 ; “παιδὸς γάρ οἱ ἄλαστον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ π. ἔκειτο” Od.24.423 ; “Σάρδεσι π. παρασχών” A.Pers.322 ; “δμῳαῖς προθήσειν π. οἰκεῖον στένειν” S.Ant.1249 ; π. ποιήσασθαι make a public mourning, Hdt.2.1 ; so “π. προεθήκαντο” Id.6.21 ; “π. τίθεται” Id.2.46 ; “π. τινὸς κοινοῦσθαι” E.Alc.426 ; ἐν πένθει [εἶναι] S.El. 290, 847(lyr.) ; “πολὺ π. ἦν κατὰ τὸ στράτευμα” X. HG4.5.10 ; “π. λιπεῖν” IG3.1311 ; π. λύεσθαι, ἀποθέσθαι, Plu.Fab. 18, Alex.75 : in pl., Pi.I.8(7).6, Fr.154, A.Ch.333(lyr.), Pl.R.395e, Arist. Rh.1370b25, etc.
II. unhappy event, misfortune, π. τινός one's illfortune, Hdt.3.14 ; “ἔτλαν π. οὐ φατόν” Pi.I.7(6).37.
III. of a person, a misery, S.Aj.615(lyr.) ; π. ἔδωκε φέρειν, i. e. the body, Epigr.Gr.228.6 (Ephesus). (Cf. πείσομαι from Πένθ-σομαι, fut. of πάσχω, pf. πείσονθα, Lith. kenčiù 'suffer', pa-kantà 'patience'; πενθ- is reduced to πṇθ- （παθ-) in αἰνο-παθής, etc.)
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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