τάλας: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(v. sub fin.), [[τάλαινα]], [[τάλαν]] (fem.<br><span class="bld">A</span> τάλας Ar.''Th.''1038): gen. ᾰνος, αίνης, ανος, also dat. τάλαντι Hippon.12: voc. [[τάλαν]], masc. in Od.18.327, 19.68, Thgn.512, etc., fem. in Ar.''Ra.''559, al. (Adv. acc. to A.D.''Adv.''160.11, Hdn.Gr.2.12, al.): Aeol. nom. τάλαις Choerob.''in Theod.''1.126 H.: ([[Τλάω]]):—[[suffering]], [[wretched]], ξεῖνε τάλαν Od.18.327, etc.; ὦ τάλας ἐγώ S.''OC''1338,1401, ''Aj.''981; ὦ τάλαιν' ἐγώ A.''Ch.''743; ὦ τάλαν S.''Ph.''1196 (lyr.): c. gen. causae, οἲ γὼ τάλαινα συμφορᾶς κακῆς [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''445, cf. 517; τάλαιν' ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεος Ar.''Pl.''1044: sometimes in bad sense, τάλαν [[wretch]]! Od.19.68: but in Com., [[τάλαινα]] [[poor dear]]! as a sort of coaxing address, Ar.''Lys.''910,914; so ὦ τάλαινα Id.''Ec.''242.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Trag. also of things, [[sorry]], [[wretched]], μόχθοι A.''Ch.''1069 (anap.); παρακοπά Id.''Ag.''223 (lyr.); πάθος Id.''Th.''988 (lyr.); νηδύς S.''OC''1263; αὔλιον Id.''Ph.''1088 (lyr.); [[συμφορά]], [[νόσος]], Id.''El.''1179, ''Tr.''1084; [[ἔρις]], [[φυγά]], E.''Hel.''248 (lyr.), ''Ph.''1710 (lyr.): Sup. [[ταλάντατος]], [[η]], [[ον]], Ar. ''Pl.''684, 1046, 1060, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''395e.—Poet. word, used by [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''4.6.5, Ph.2.239, Arr.''Epict.''2.16.20, Plu.''Ant.''79, al., Luc.''DMeretr.''10.3.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[Τάλας]], ὁ, a [[constellation]] (θεός τις κατακέφαλα κείμενος) rising with [[Sagittarius]], ''Cat.Cod.Astr.''7.207. [τᾰλᾱς [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''158 (anap.), S. (v. supr.), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''163,1192, ''Pax''79, ''Av.''1494, ''Pl.''930; Dor. also τᾰλᾰς Theoc.2.4, ''AP''9.378 (Pall.): voc. τάλᾰν Thgn.512, S.''Ph.''1196 (lyr.), Ar.''Ec.''658,1005 (both anap.).]