λελείμμεθον

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’ Háidēs 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.

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)).