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δυσθέατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσθέατος δυσθέατον

Structure: δυσθεατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ill to look on

Examples

  • δυσθέατα πήματα ‐ ἔδειξεν ἐκ φυγᾶσ ἐμοί. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • οὔποτ’ οὔποτ’ ηὔχουν <ὧδε > ξένουσ μολεῖσθαι λόγουσ εἰσ ἀκοὰν ἐμάν, οὐδ’ ὧδε δυσθέατα καὶ δύσοιστα πήματα, λύματα, δείματα ἀμ‐ φάκει κέντρῳ τύψειν ψυχὰν ἐμάν. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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