lost
From LSJ
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
Of persons, abandoned: P. ἀπονενοημένος.
it is labour lost to: V. πόνος περισσός ἐστι (infin.) (Soph. Antigone 780).
lost in, absorbed in: P. ὅλος πρός (dat.), V. ἀνειμένος εἰς (acc.).
