atonement

From LSJ

τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

expiation, purification: P. and V. καθαρμός, ὁ, λύσις, ἡ; see expiation.

compensation: V. ἄποινα, τά (Plato but rare P.), ποινή, ἡ or pl. (rare P.), P. and V. τίσις, ἡ (Plato).

make a onement: see atone.

purify: P. and V. καθαίρειν; see purify.