οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
adj.
P. and V. δεινός, φοβερός, φρικώδης (Dem. 644), V. δύσχιμος, ἔμφοβος.
Suffer some dire calamity: P. ἀνήκεστόν τι πάσχειν.
dīrē, cruellement : Sen. Thyest. 315.