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δυστυχής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυστυχής δυστυχές

Structure: δυστυχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tu/xh

Sense

  1. unlucky, unfortunate
  2. ill-starred, harbinger of ill

Examples

  • ὅταν γὰρ ἔλθῃ πόλεμοσ ἐσ ψῆφον λεώ, οὐδεὶσ ἔθ’ αὑτοῦ θάνατον ἐκλογίζεται, τὸ δυστυχὲσ δὲ τοῦτ’ ἐσ ἄλλον ἐκτρέπει· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:9)
  • ὁ δ’ εὐτυχήσασ ἐσ τὸ δυστυχὲσ πεσὼν ψυχὴν ἀλᾶται τῆσ πάροιθ’ εὐπραξίασ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 2:4)
  • ἄφιλον, ἵν’ αὖθίσ σοι λέγω, τὸ δυστυχέσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 3:34)
  • τὸ δυστυχέσ μοι τῶν γάμων αἰδῶ φέρει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees7)
  • τοὐμὸν δὲ κάλλοσ, εἰ καλὸν τὸ δυστυχέσ, Κύπρισ προτείνασ’ ὡσ Ἀλέξανδροσ γαμεῖ, νικᾷ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. unlucky

  2. ill-starred

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

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