harbinger
From LSJ
οὔτ' ἐν φθιμένοις οὔτ' ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀριθμουμένη, χωρὶς δή τινα τῶνδ' ἔχουσα μοῖραν → neither among the dead nor the living do I count myself, having a lot apart from these
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
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).
