δύστηνος

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Menander, Monostichoi, 294
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Transliteration A: dýstēnos Transliteration B: dystēnos Transliteration C: dystinos Beta Code: du/sthnos

English (LSJ)

Dor. δύστᾱνος, ον,

   A wretched, unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, poet. Adj.:    1 mostly of persons, as always in Hom. and mostly Trag., A.Pers.909 (anap.), etc.; δυστήνων δέ τε παῖδες ἐμῷ μένει ἀντιόωσιν unhappy are they whose sons... Il.6.127.    2 of sufferings and the like, μόχθος δ. Pi.P.4.268; θέρος A.Ag.1655; αἰκίαι S.El.511 (lyr.); ὄνειδος Id.Aj.1191 (lyr.); ὄνειρος Ar.Ra.1333 (lyr.); πάθος D.H.6.20. Adv., Sup. δυστανοτάτως γηράσκω E.Supp. 967 (lyr.).    II after Hom., in moral sense, wretched, S.El.121 (Sup., lyr.), Ph.1016; λόγοι E.HF1346.—Rare in Prose, though D. 19.255 has δ. λογάρια, in latter sense: Sup. (v. supr. 1); no Comp. is found. (Cf. ἄστηνος.)