Alcestis

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κείνους δὲ κλαίω ξυμφορᾷ κεχρημένους (Euripides' Medea 347) → I weep for those who have suffered disaster

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English > Greek (Woodhouse)

Ἄλκηστις, -ιδος, ἡ, or say, daughter of Pelias.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Alcestis: is, or Alcestē, ēs, f., = Ἄλκηστις or Ἀλκήστη,
I daughter of Pelias, and wife of Admetus, king of Pherœ, for the preservation of whose life she resigned her own, but was afterwards brought back from the lower world by Hercules, and restored to her husband, v. Hyg. Fab. 51 and 251; Mart. 4, 75; Juv. 6, 652.—Also, a play of Nœvius, Gell. 19, 7.

Latin > German (Georges)

Alcēstis, tidis, Akk. tim u. tin, f., u. Alcēstē, ēs, f. (Ἀλκηστις od. Ἀλκήστη), die Tochter des Pelias, Gemahlin des Admetus, Herrschers von Pherä, die das Leben ihres Gatten durch freiwilligen Tod von den Parzen erkaufte, ihm aber von der Proserpina zurückgesandt oder, nach einer andern Sage, von Herkules dem Hades wieder abgekämpft wurde, Hyg. fab. 50 u. 51 (Akk. tim). Mart. 4, 75, 6 (Akk. -tin). Iuven. 6, 653 (Akk. -tim). Macr. sat. 5, 19, 4 (Genet. -tidis). Vgl. Admetus no. I. – Ihre Schicksale als Gegenstand der Darstellung in der griech. u. röm. Tragödie, ignoravit Euripidis nobilissimam fabulam Alcestim, Macr. sat. 5, 19, 3: legi Laevii Alcestin, Gell. 19, 7, 2.

Spanish > Greek

Ἄλκηστις