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δύσμορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσμορος δύσμορον

Structure: δυσμορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = du/smoiros,

Sense

  1. ill-fated, ill-starred, with ill fortune

Examples

  • τί σ’ ἐγώ, δύσμορε, δράσω; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests3)
  • ἢ τάδε θρέπτρα τίνεισ, ὅτι θῆκά σε, δύσμορε, πάσησ ᾠοτόκου κραίνειν ἐν μεγάροισ ἀγέλησ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2863)
  • ἐν μονοκλίνῳ δεῖ σὲ βιοῦν αἰεί, δύσμορε, πετριδίῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 570 1:2)
  • τίσ φθόνοσ ὄσσων, δύσμορε; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1063)
  • γνώσῃ, δύσμορε, τυφομένη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1313)

Synonyms

  1. ill-fated

Related

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

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