Alcestis
τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς → why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye | and why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye | why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye
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.
