Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δύσαυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσαυλος δύσαυλον

Structure: δυσαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)lh/

Sense

  1. inhospitable

Examples

  • καὶ φθέγμα καὶ ἀνεμόεν φρόνημα καὶ ἀστυνόμουσ ὀργὰσ ἐδιδάξατο καὶ δυσαύλων πάγων ὑπαίθρεια καὶ δύσομβρα φεύγειν βέλη παντοπόροσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. inhospitable

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

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