λελείμμεθον

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /le.lěːm.me.tʰon/ → /leˈlim.me.θon/ → /leˈli.me.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /le.lěːm.me.tʰon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /leˈlim.me.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leˈlim.me.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /leˈlim.me.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /leˈli.me.θon/

Verb

λελείμμεθον • (leleímmethon)

1. (poetic) first-person dual perfect mediopassive indicative of λείπω (leípō)
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 947–950:

     ἄκουε δή νυν ᾗ βεβούλευμαι ποεῖν. / παρουσίαν μὲν οἶσθα καὶ σύ που φίλων / ὡς οὔτις ἡμῖν ἔστιν, ἀλλ’ ᾍδης λαβὼν / ἀπεστέρηκε καὶ μόνα λελείμμεθον.

     ákoue dḗ nun hêi beboúleumai poeîn. / parousían mèn oîstha kaì sú pou phílōn / hōs oútis hēmîn éstin, all’ Hā́idēs labṑn / apestérēke kaì móna leleímmethon.

     Hear, then, what I have decided to do. / The presence—you too, know it very well—of any friends [kin] / that we have is no one, but Hades grabbing [them] / deprived us [from them] and the two of us are left alone.

     Scene: Electra to her sister Chrysothemis: now, believing that their brother Orestes is dead, she has plans.

Usage notes

One of a small handful of first-person dual verb forms attested in the entire Ancient Greek corpus. The others are ὁρμώμεθον (hormṓmethon) and περιδώμεθον (peridṓmethon) (v.l. περιδώμεθα (peridṓmetha)).