ἄγγελος
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
ὁ, ἡ,
A messenger, envoy, Il.2.26, etc.; δι' ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί Hdt.5.92.ζ, cf. SIG229.25 (Erythrae):— prov., Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Men.32. 2 generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Thgn.769; ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ Simon.74; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Thgn.549; of the nightingale, ὄρνις . . Διὸς ἄ. S.El.149: c. gen. rei, ἄ. κακῶν ἐμῶν Id.Ant.277; ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων E.Supp.203; αἴσθησις ἡμῖν ἄ. Plot.5.3.3; neut. pl., ἄγγελα νίκης Nonn.D.34.226. 3 angel, LXX Ge.28.12, al., Ev.Matt.1.24, al., Ph.2.604, etc. 4 in later philos., semi-divine being, ἡλιακοὶ ἄ. Jul.Or.4.141b, cf. Iamb.Myst.2.6, Procl. in R.2.243 K.; ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι Theol.Ar.43.10, cf. Dam.Pr.183, al.: also in mystical and magical writings, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45, PMag.Lond.46.121, etc. II title of Artemis at Syracuse, Hsch.
German (Pape)
[Seite 10] ὁ, auch fem. von der Iris, Il. 2, 786 und öfter, 1) der Bote, Gesandte, oft bei Hom. u. Tragg. und in Prosa, bes. oft πέμπειν, ἐλθεῖν. Auch Vögel, deren Flug vorbedeutend war, Il. 24, 292. 296; übrtr. λευκαὶ ἔθειραι συνετῆς ἄγγελοι ἡλικίης Philod. 14 (XI, 41); vgl. Leon. Tar. 41 (Plan. 182). – 2) die Botschaft, die Benachrichtigung, Pol. 1, 72, 4. – 3) im N. T. u. K. S. Engel.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἄγγελος: ὁ, ἡ, ἀγγελιαφόρος, Ὅμ. Ἡρ., δι’ ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί, Ἡρόδ. 5. 92, 6, πρβλ. 1. 99. 2) καθόλου, ὁ ἀναγγέλλων ἢ λέγων τι, οὕτως ἐπὶ πτηνῶν προοιωνιζόντων τι οἰωνόν, Ἰλ. Ω, 292, 296· Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, ἐπὶ ποιητοῦ, Θέογν. 769, ὄρνις ... Διὸς ἄγγ., περὶ ἀηδόνος, Σοφ. Ἠλ. 149· μ. γεν. πράγ., ἄγγ. κακῶν ἐμῶν, ὁ αὐτ. Ἀντ. 277· ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων, Εὐρ. Ἱκ. 203. 3) ἄγγελος (πνεῦμα), Ἑβδ., Κ. Δ. ΙΙ. ὡς τὸ Λατ. nuntius, τὸ ἄγγελμα, ἡ εἴδησις, τὰ νέα, Πολύβ. 1. 72, 4, (ἴσως συγγ. τῷ ἄγγαρος καὶ τῷ Σανσκρ. angiras, ὡς τὸ πολὺς εἶναι συγγ. τῷ Σανσκρ. purus).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ, ἡ)
1 messager, messagère;
2 en poésie et en prose ion. envoyé, député;
3 postér. messager de Dieu, ange.
Étymologie: DELG emprunt oriental obscur.
English (Autenrieth)
messenger; common phrase, ἦλθέ τινι, Il. 11.715; Ὄσσα Διὸς ἄγγελος, Il. 2.94; also of birds, Od. 15.526.
