ἔλεος, ὁ,
pity, mercy, compassion, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.44, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also in plural, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 6c6 c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.83 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ᾽ ἔ. τινος ἐσῆλθε pity for.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 491; ἔλεον ποιήσασθαι ἐπί τινι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.111; ἐλέου τυχεῖν παρά τινος 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.27:—later ἔλεος, τό, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.88.2, LXX.Gen.19.19, etc.: _plural_, ἐλέη, τά,LXX.Psa.16(17).7 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ποιεῖν μετά τινος[[LXX.Gen.24.12, +others] LXX] (but masculine is also found,[[LXX.Psa.83(84).12, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 33.11.3, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 83, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.65 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, NT.Jam.2.13, etc.). ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II personified. worshipped at Athens, [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 260; at Epidaurus, “IG” 4.1282; Ἔ. ἐπιεικὴς θεός 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 31. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III object of compassion, piteous thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 832. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]