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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

  • προσάγετε <τῶν> δυσπότμων σώμαθ’ αἱματοσταγῆ, σφαγέντασ οὐκ ἄξι’ οὐδ’ ὑπ’ ἀξίων, ἐν οἷσ ἀγὼν ἐκράνθη. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • τίσ ἱερεύσ, τίσ σφαγεὺσ τῶν δυσπότμων ἢ τῆσ ταλαίνησ τῆσ ἐμῆσ ψυχῆσ φονεύσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • ἰὼ δυσπότμων κασίγνητε γάμων κυρήσασ, θανὼν ἔτ’ οὖσαν κατήναρέσ με. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 24)

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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