Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἦ πολύμοχθον ἄρ’ ἦν γένοσ, ἦ πολύμοχθον ἁμερίων, <τὸ> χρεὼν δέ τι δύσποτμον ἀνδράσιν ἀνευρεῖν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, lyric 1:4)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἀναλοῖ δῆτα δύσποτμον γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode20)
  • στυγερὰν ἔχε δύσποτμον ἀρὰν ἐπ’ ἄλλοισ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 12)

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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