Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσθρήνητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσθρήνητος δυσθρήνητον

Structure: δυσθρηνητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qrhne/w

Sense

  1. loud-wailing, most mournful

Examples

  • ἰὼ δμωαί, δυσθρηνήτοισ ὡσ θρήνοισ ἔγκειμαι, τᾶσ οὐκ εὐμούσου μολπᾶσ βοὰν ἀλύροισ ἐλέγοισ, αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ, κηδείοισ οἴκτοισιν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:1)
  • τῷ δ’ ἀθλίασ ἄσημα περιβαίνει βοῆσ ἑρ́ποντι μᾶλλον ἆσσον, οἰμώξασ δ’ ἔποσ ἱήσι δυσθρήνητον· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:11)

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

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