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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

  • γάμων δὲ τῆσ μὲν δυσπότμου τῆσδ’ ἐσφάλησ, ἥν σοι κατηγγύησ’ ἑταιρίαν σέβων· (Euripides, episode, anapests 3:11)
  • εἰ δέ τισ ὑπέροπτα χερσὶν ἢ λόγῳ πορεύεται, δίκασ ἀφόβητοσ οὐδὲ δαιμόνων ἕδη σέβων, κακά νιν ἕλοιτο μοῖρα, δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶσ, εἰ μὴ τὸ κέρδοσ κερδανεῖ δικαίωσ καὶ τῶν ἀσέπτων ἔρξεται ἢ τῶν ἀθίκτων θίξεται ματᾴζων. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 21)

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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