ἐλεεῖν

From LSJ

οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also ἐλεέω): pity