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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)
  • βέβακα δύσποτμοσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric 1:6)
  • μῶν ἐν οἷσ Οἰνεὺσ ὁδὶ ὁ δύσποτμοσ γεραιὸσ ἠγωνίζετο; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:16)
  • 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)
  • τίσ ἱερεύσ, τίσ σφαγεὺσ τῶν δυσπότμων ἢ τῆσ ταλαίνησ τῆσ ἐμῆσ ψυχῆσ φονεύσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • πολλοὺσ δὲ καὶ Σικελίασ ὁ δύσερωσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἤδη καὶ δύσποτμοσ ἔρωσ εἶχεν, ὃν ὕστερον ἐξέκαυσαν οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην ῥήτορεσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 20 3:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ οὗτοσ εἶ ὅν φησιν οὗτοσ, ἴσθι δύσποτμοσ γεγώσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:14)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ μὲν ἥδ’ ὁδὸσ ἔσται μέλουσα δύσποτμόσ τε καὶ κακὴ πρὸσ τοῦδε πατρὸσ τῶν τε τοῦδ’ ἐρινύων· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 4:3)

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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