πέλωρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[portent]], [[prodigy]], [[monster]], Ep. Noun, only nom. and acc., in early writers always of living beings, mostly in bad sense, as of the Cyclops, π. ἀθεμίστια εἰδώς <span class="bibl">Od.9.428</span> ; <b class="b3">αὐτὴ δ' αὖτε π. κακόν</b>, of Scylla, <span class="bibl">12.87</span> ; of the serpent Python, <span class="title">h.Ap.</span> 374 ; of a dolphin, <b class="b3">π. μέγα τε δεινόν τε</b> ib.401 ; even of Hephaestus, π. αἴητον ἀνέστη χωλεύων <span class="bibl">Il.18.410</span> ; later, of things, εὐρυτενὴς ὠγκοῦτο π. μίτος <span class="bibl">Nonn. <span class="title">D.</span> 24.257</span>.—Cf. [[πέλωρος]].</span>