harbinger

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

Use adj., P. πρόδρομος.

messenger: P. and V. ἄγγελος, ὁ or ἡ, V. πομπός, ὁ.

alas you utter a word that is a harbinger of sorrow: V. αἰαῖ κακῶν ἀρχηγὸν ἐκφαίνεις λόγον (Euripides, Hippolytus 881).