δύσελπις
From LSJ
ἐκ Χάεος δ' Ἔρεβός τε μέλαινά τε Νὺξ ἐγένοντο... (Hesiod's Theogony 123) → From Chasm, Erebos and black Night came to be...
English (LSJ)
ι, gen. ιδος,
A hardly hoping, despondent, A.Ch.412 (lyr.), Hp.Nat.Mul.41 (prob.), X.HG5.4.31, Arist.Rh. 1390a4; δ. τι ἐρεῖν Luc.Herm.69. II Pass., hardly hoped for, νίκη Onos.38.2.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
δύσελπις: -ιδος, ὁ, ἡ, ὁ μόλις ἐλπίζων, ἄπελπις, Αἰσχύλ. Χο. 412, Ξεν. Ἑλλ. 5. 4, 31, Ἀριστ. Ρητ. 2. 13, 11 κ. ἀλλ.
