δεινός: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[from [[δέος]], [[properly]] δεεινός, cf. [[ἐλεεινός]], [[ἐλεινός]], from [[ἔλεος]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[fearful]], [[terrible]], [[dread]], [[dire]], Hom., etc.; δεινὸν ἀϋτεῖν, βροντᾶν to [[shout]], [[thunder]] [[terribly]], Il.; δεινὸν δέρκεσθαι, παπταίνειν, [[ἰδεῖν]] to [[look]] [[terrible]], Hom.; but, δεινὸς [[ἰδέσθαι]] [[fearful]] to [[behold]], Od.; δεινὸς μὲν ὁρᾶν, δεινὸς δὲ κλύειν Soph.:— τὸ δεινόν [[danger]], [[suffering]], awe, [[terror]], Hdt., Aesch., etc.; so, τὰ δεινά Soph., etc.:— οὐδὲν δεινοί, μὴ ἀποστέωσιν no [[fear]] of [[their]] [[revolting]], Hdt.:— [[δεινὸν ποιεῖσθαι]] to [[take]] ill, [[complain]] of, be [[indignant]] at a [[thing]], Lat. [[aegre]] ferre, Hdt., etc.; δεινὰ [[παθεῖν]] to [[suffer]] [[dreadful]], [[illegal]], [[arbitrary]] [[treatment]], [[attic]]; so in adv., [[δεινῶς]] φέρειν Hdt.; δ. ἔχειν to be in straits, Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> with a [[notion]] of Force or Power, [[mighty]], [[powerful]], δεινὸν [[σάκος]] the [[mighty]] [[shield]], Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[simply]], [[wondrous]], [[marvellous]], [[strange]], τὸ συγγενές τοι δεινόν kin has a [[strange]] [[power]], Aesch.; δ. [[ἵμερος]], [[ἔρως]], [[δέος]] Hdt.; δεινὸν ἂν εἴη, εἰ…, it were [[strange]] that…, Eur.:—adv. -νῶς, [[marvellously]], [[exceedingly]], δ. [[μέλας]], [[ἄνυδρος]] Hdt.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> the [[sense]] of [[powerful]], [[wondrous]] passed [[into]] that of [[able]], [[clever]], [[skilful]], Hdt., [[attic]]; especially of [[practical]] [[ability]], opp. to [[σοφός]], Plat.: c. inf., δεινὸς [[εὑρεῖν]] [[clever]] at inventing, Aesch.; δεινὸς λέγειν Soph.; δεινὸς πράγμασι [[χρῆσθαι]] Dem.: also c. acc., δεινὸς τὴν τέχνην Plat.; δ. [[περί]] τι or τινος Plat.