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δυσκέλαδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσκέλαδος δυσκέλαδον

Structure: δυσκελαδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ill-sounding, shrieking, discordant

Examples

  • ζῆλοσ δ’ ἀνθρώποισιν ὀιζυροῖσιν ἅπασι δυσκέλαδοσ κακόχαρτοσ ὁμαρτήσει, στυγερώπησ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 22:15)
  • παλίμφαμοσ ἀοιδὰ καὶ μοῦσ’ εἰσ ἄνδρασ ἴτω δυσκέλαδοσ ἀμφὶ λέκτρων. (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • τὰσ δ’ ἀπέλειπον, ὅσαι Κόλχοισι πάροιθεν ἑξείησ πλήθοντο Λιβυρνίδεσ εἰν ἁλὶ νῆσοι, Ἴσσα τε Δυσκέλαδόσ τε καὶ ἱμερτὴ Πιτύεια. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 10:8)

Synonyms

  1. ill-sounding

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

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