Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δακέθυμος

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δακέθυμος

Sense

  1. heart-eating, heart-vexing

Examples

  • εἱρ͂πε γὰρ ἄλλοτ’ ἀλλαχᾷ τότ’ ἂν εἰλυόμενοσ παῖσ ἄτερ ὡσ φίλασ τιθήνασ ὅθεν εὐμάρει’ ὑπάρ‐ χοι πόρου, ἁνίκ’ ἐξανείη δακέθυμοσ ἄτα· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. heart-eating

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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