οἰκτίρμων
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)
ον, gen. ονος,
A merciful, Gorg.Pal.32, Theoc.15.75,AP7.359, LXXEx. 34.6, al., Ev.Luc.6.36.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
οἰκτίρμων: -ον, γεν. ονος, ἐλεήμων, πλήρης ἐλέους καὶ οἰκτιρμῶν, Θεόκρ. 15. 75, Ἀνθ. Π. 7. 359, Καιν. Διαθ.
English (Strong)
from οἰκτείρω; compassionate: merciful, of tender mercy.
English (Thayer)
οἰκτιρμόν, genitive ὀικτιρμονος (ὀκτείρω), merciful: Theocritus, 15,75; Anth. 7,359, 1 (Epigr. Anth. Pal. Append. 223,5); the Sept. for רַחוּם.) ("In classic Greek only a poetic term for the more common ἐλεήμων." Schmidt iii., p. 580.)
