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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

  • χωρεῖ δὲ θήρᾳ δυσπότμῳ γαυρουμένη τειχέων ἔσω τῶνδ’, ἀνακαλοῦσα Βάκχιον τὸν ξυγκύναγον, τὸν ξυνεργάτην ἄγρασ, τὸν καλλίνικον, ᾧ δάκρυα νικηφορεῖ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 9:3)
  • τί οὖν ἔτευξεν ἄλλο δυσπότμῳ βοί̈; (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 7:13)

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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