ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου → my life is as nothing in respect to you, my life is nothing in thy reckoning
P. and V. δεινός, φοβερός, φρικώδης (Dem. 644), V. δύσχιμος, ἔμφοβος.
suffer some dire calamity: P. ἀνήκεστόν τι πάσχειν.
dīrē, cruellement : Sen. Thyest. 315.