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δυσαίων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσαίων δυσαίωνος

Structure: δυσαιων (Stem)

Sense

  1. living a hard life, most miserable, that is no life

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δυσαίων δυσαίωνε δυσαίωνες
Genitive δυσαίωνος δυσαιώνοιν δυσαιώνων
Dative δυσαίωνι δυσαιώνοιν δυσαίωσιν*
Accusative δυσαίωνα δυσαίωνε δυσαίωνας
Vocative δυσαίων δυσαίωνε δυσαίωνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • δυσαίων δ’ ὁ βίοσ, πλαγκτὰ δ’ ὡσεί τισ νεφέλα πνευμάτων ὑπὸ δυσχίμων ἀίσσω. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 13)
  • αἰὼν δυσαίων τισ ἔλαχεν ἔλαχεν, ὅτε σ’ ἐτέκετο ματρόθεν χιονόχρωσ κύκνου πτερῷ Ζεὺσ πρέπων δι’ αἰθέροσ· (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • δυσαίων μακραίων γ’, ὅσ’ ἐπεικάσαι. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • τριτάτῳ δὲ κατέφθιτο μηνὶ δυσαίων οὐλομένῃ ψυχῆσ δύσφρονι τηκεδόνι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 475 1:1)

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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