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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

  • πλήθουσι νεκρῶν δυσπότμωσ ἐφθαρμένων Σαλαμῖνοσ ἀκταὶ πᾶσ τε πρόσχωροσ τόποσ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, strophe 2 1:1)
  • ἕξουσι δ’ ἣν λάβωσιν ἐν ταφῇ χθονόσ, πατρὸσ κατ’ εὐχὰσ δυσπότμωσ φορούμενοι. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode23)

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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