desperate
χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adj.
Hopeless: P. ἀνέλπιστος.
Impossible to deal with: P. and V. ἄπορος, V. ἀμήχανος (rare P.).
Of persons: P. ἀπονενοημένος; see despairing.
Precarious: P. ἐπικίνδυνος, ἐπισφαλής.
Incurable: P. and V. ἀνήκεστος, V. δύσκηλος; see incurable.
Fierce, obstinale: P. ἰσχυρός.
Be in desperate straits, v.: P. ἀπόρως διακεῖσθαι.
Desperate straits, subs.: P. and V. ἄπορον, τό, or pl., V. ἀμήχανον, τό, or pl. (rare P.).
Desperate remedies: P. διακεκινδυνευμένα φάρμακα (Isoc.).
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēspērātē:
I adv., hopelessly, etc., v. despero, P. a., no. 2. fin.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dēspērātē, c. desperanter : Aug. Ep. 56, 2 || desperatius Aug. Conf. 6, 15 ; Cassian. Coll. 4, 20.
Latin > German (Georges)
dēspērātē, Adv. m. Compar. (desperatus), hoffnungslos, vel securus vel certe non d. sollicitus, Augustin. epist. 56, 2: vulnus quasi frigidius, sed desperatius dolebat, Augustin. conf. 6, 15: desperatius aegrotare, Cassian. coll. 4, 20 extr.
