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δύστηνος , Dor. δύστα_νος , ον,
A.wretched, unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, poet. Adj.:
1. mostly of persons, as always in Hom. and mostly Trag., A.Pers.909 (anap.), etc.; δυστήνων δέ τε παῖδες ἐμῷ μένει ἀντιόωσιν unhappy are they whose sons . . , Il.6.127.
2. of sufferings and the like , “μόχθος δ.” Pi.P.4.268; “θέρος” A.Ag.1655; “αἰκίαι” S.El.511 (lyr.); “ὄνειδος” Id.Aj.1191 (lyr.); “ὄνειρος” Ar.Ra.1333 (lyr.); “πάθος” D.H.6.20. Adv., Sup. “δυστανοτάτως γηράσκω” E.Supp. 967 (lyr.).
II. after Hom., in moral sense, wretched, S.El.121 (Sup., lyr.), Ph.1016; “λόγοι” E.HF1346.—Rare in Prose, though D. 19.255 has δ. λογάρια, in latter sense: Sup. (v. supr. 1); no Comp. is found. (Cf. ἄστηνος.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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