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πάνδυρτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάνδυρτος πάνδυρτον

Structure: πανδυρτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for pano/durtos

Sense

  1. all-lamentable, all-plaintive

Examples

  • ἱέτ’ αἰανῆ καὶ πάνδυρτον δύσθροον αὐδάν. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ἥσω τοι τὰν πάνδυρτον, σὰ πάθη τε σέβων ἁλίτυπά τε βάρη, πόλεωσ γέννασ πενθητῆροσ· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. all-lamentable

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

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