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δύσποτμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσποτμος δύσποτμον

Structure: δυσποτμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unlucky, ill-starred, unhappy, wretched, curses

Examples

  • μάλιστα δ’ ἄν τισ ἀγάσαιτο τὸ φρόνημα καὶ τὴν πρᾳότητα τῆσ πόλεωσ, ὅτε τοῦ ὑπάτου Βάρρωνοσ ἀπὸ τῆσ φυγῆσ ἐπανιόντοσ, ὡσ ἄν τισ αἴσχιστα καὶ δυσποτμότατα πεπραχὼσ ἐπανίοι, ταπεινοῦ καὶ κατηφοῦσ, ἀπήντησεν αὐτῷ περὶ τάσ πύλασ ἥ τε βουλὴ καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ ἅπαν ἀσπαζόμενοι. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 18 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. unlucky

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

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