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πτωχός , ή, όν, also ός, όν A.Ag.1274, S.OC444,751:—
A.beggar, Od. 14.400, 18.1, Hdt.3.14, etc.; “πρὸς γὰρ Διός εἰσιν ἅπαντες ξεῖνοί τε πτωχοί τε” Od.6.208, cf. 17.475; “πτωχὸς πτωχῷ φθονέει” Hes.Op.26; “π. ἀνὴρ ἀλαλήμενος ἐλθών” Od.21.327; “π. καὶ ἀλήμονες ἄνδρες” 19.74; “πτωχοὺς ἀλᾶσθαι” E.Med.515; “πτωχοῦ βίος ζῆν ἐστιν μηδὲν ἔχοντα, τοῦ δὲ πένητος ζῆν φειδόμενον” Ar.Pl.552: prov., “πτωχοῦ πήρη οὐ πίμπλαται” Call.Fr.360: πτωχή beggar-woman, Ath.10.453a (so πτωχός (fem.), S.OC444); “χήρα πτωχή” Ev.Marc.12.42.
2. metaph., “οἱ π. τῷ πνεύματι” Ev.Matt.5.3, cf. Ev.Luc.6.20.
II. as Adj., beggarly, “πτωχῷ διαίτῃ” S.OC751; “π. στοιχεῖα” Ep.Gal.4.9: c. gen., beggared of, poor in, [“πηγὴ] π. νυμφῶν” AP9.258 (Antiphan.).
2. Comp. “πτωχότερος” Timocl.6.10; prov., π. κίγκλου 'as poor as a church mouse', Men.221; irreg. “πτωχίστερος” Ar.Ach.425: Sup. “πτωχότατος” AP10.50 (Pall.).
3. Adv. -χῶς poorly, scantily, “ἠροτρία π. μέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀναγκαίως” Babr.55.2.
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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