ἐλπ-ίς, ίδος, ἡ,
(see. ἔλπω) hope, expectation (δόξα μελλόντων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 644c), ἔτι γὰρ καὶ ἐλπίδος αἶσα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.101, 19.84; personified, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 96: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.49, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολλῶν ῥαγεισῶν ἐλπίδων after the wreck of many hopes, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 505; ἔτι ἐν αὐτοῖς εἰσὶν ἐλπίδες, νέοι γάρ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 328d; κεναῖσιν ἐλπίσιν θερμαίνεται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 478 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; expectancy, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 771 (_plural_), “OC” 1749 (Lyric poetry, _plural_), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.32 (_plural_), etc.:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —Constr., in _Attic dialect_, with _genitive_ both of subject and object, as (where both are conjoined) Πελοποννησίων τὴν ἐλπίδα τοῦ ναυτικοῦ the hope of the P.in their navy, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89; also αἱ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐς ὑμᾶς ἐλπίδες [prev. author] 3.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑμέτεραι ἐλπίδες,= ἐς ὑμᾶς, [[ [prev. author] 1.69 ] Refs]; ἐλπίδ᾽ ἔχω, ={ἐλπίζω}, with future infinitive, μὴ οὐ δώσειν δίκην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.11, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with aorist infinitive, κλέος εὑρέσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.111: with ὡς] Refs 5th c.BC+] and future infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 385; ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 52; περὶ τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ ψυχῆς οὐ πολλὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχω 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ἐλπίδι εἰμί, with future infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.46; ἐν ἐλπίσι καλαῖς γενόμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐλπίς [ἐστί] μοι with accusative and future infinitive or aorist, ἐλπίς τις αὐτὸν ἥξειν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 679; τοσοῦτόν γ᾽ ἐστί μοι τῆς ἐλπίδος, τὸν ἄνδρα.. προσμεῖναι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 836; πλείων ἐλπὶς φιλίαν ἢ ἔχθραν γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 232e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with present infinitive, [[ [prev. author] “Sph.” 250e: followed by ὡς.., 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 487; ἐς ἐλπίδα ἐλθεῖν τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.56; ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδας ἀφανεῖς καθίστασθαι [prev. author] 5.103; ἐλπίδα λαβεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐλπίδας μεγάλας ἔν τινι ἔχειν[[ [prev. work] 1.4.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.121 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τίν᾽ ὑπάγεις μ᾽ ἐς ἐλπίδ; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 826 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐλπίδας ἐμποιεῖν ἀνθρώποις, ὑποθεῖναί τισι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.19, “HG” 4.8.28; ἐλπίδας μεγίστας παρέχεται ποιῆσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐλπίδα or ἐλπίδας ὑπογράφειν, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.65U., 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.36.1; ἀποκεκομμένης τῆς ἐλπίδος [prev. author] 3.63.8, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1272 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκτὸς ἐλπίδος beyond hope, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 330; ἀπ᾽ ἐλπίδος πεσεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 999 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρ᾽ ἐλπίδα[[ [prev. work] 899, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 882: proverbial, πεινῶμεν ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐλπίσιν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 123.7; κάπτοντες αὔρας ἐλπίδας σιτούμενοι 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 10.7; αἱ δ᾽ ἐλπίδες βόσκουσι τοὺς κενούς 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 42. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]