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κακάγγελος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακάγγελος κακάγγελον

Structure: κακαγγελ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bringing ill tidings

Examples

  • "σὲ οὖν κακάγγελον ἔπεμψαν ἡμῖν; (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, , section 52)
  • "σὲ οὖν κακάγγελον ἔπεμψαν ἡμῖν; (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, , section 52)
  • εὔφημον ἦμαρ οὐ πρέπει κακαγγέλῳ γλώσσῃ μιαίνειν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 5:1)
  • Ὀρθροβόασ, δυσέρωτι κακάγγελε, νῦν, τρισάλαστε, ἐννύχιοσ κράζεισ πλευροτυπῆ κέλαδον, γαῦροσ ὑπὲρ κοίτασ, ὅτε μοι βραχὺ τοῦτ’ ἔτι νυκτὸσ ζῇ τὸ φιλεῖν, ἐπ’ ἐμαῖσ δ’ ἁδὺ γελᾷσ ὀδύναισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1371)

Synonyms

  1. bringing ill tidings

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

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