Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσδαίμων

Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσδαίμων

Sense

  1. of ill fortune, ill-fated

Examples

  • τί δ’ ἐσ Κιθαιρῶν’ ἦλθε δυσδαίμων ὅδε; (Euripides, episode 4:17)
  • ἐξ ἀρχᾶσ μοι δυσδαίμων δαίμων τᾶσ ματρὸσ ζώνασ καὶ νυκτὸσ κείνασ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 3:1)
  • τίσ ἀνδρῶν ὧδε δυσδαίμων ἔφυ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric3)
  • δυσδαίμων δ’ ἔρισ ἄλλα θάλλει παίδων Οἰδιπόδα κατὰ δώματα καὶ πόλιν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • κτανὼν δ’ ἐμαυτοῦ πατέρ’ ὁ δυσδαίμων ἐγὼ ἐσ μητρὸσ ἦλθον τῆσ ταλαιπώρου λέχοσ, παῖδάσ τ’ ἀδελφοὺσ ἔτεκον, οὓσ ἀπώλεσα, ἀρὰσ παραλαβὼν Λαί̈ου καὶ παισὶ δούσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:28)

Synonyms

  1. of ill fortune

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

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