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|Definition=ά, όν, [[poor]], [[needy]], <span class="bibl">Od.3.348</span>, <span class="bibl">Alc.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Thgn. 165</span>, <span class="bibl">181</span>, <span class="bibl">Sol.4.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span> 7.19</span>.—Poet. word, found in Com., as <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>976</span>, <span class="bibl">Philetaer.4</span>, Diod. Com.<span class="bibl">2.8</span>, in <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>578a</span>, and in later Prose, as <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>3p.73</span> (iii B. C.), Socr. ap. Stob.3.13.64, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>22.25</span>, etc.; π. δίαιτα <span class="bibl">Phld. <span class="title">Oec.</span>p.48</span> <span class="title">J.</span>: Comp. πενιχρότερος <span class="bibl">Ph.2.284</span>, Sup. πενιχρότατος <span class="bibl">Plb.6.21.7</span>. Adv. [[πενιχρῶς]] = [[in poverty]] <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1252b3</span>. [ῐ by nature, Pi. and Ar. Il. cc., also <span class="bibl">Man.2.416</span>, elsewhere ῑ by position.]</span>