A.“τάλας” Ar.Th.1038): gen. α^νος, 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.OC1338,1401, Aj.981; “ὦ τάλαιν᾽ ἐγώ” A.Ch.743; “ὦ τάλαν” S.Ph.1196 (lyr.): c. gen. causae, “οἲ γὼ τάλαινα συμφορᾶς κακῆς” A.Pers.445, cf. 517; “τάλαιν᾽ ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεος” Ar.Pl.1044: sts. 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.
2. in Trag. also of things, sorry, wretched, “μόχθοι” A.Ch.1069 (anap.); “παρακοπά” Id.Ag.223 (lyr.); “πάθος” Id.Th.988 (lyr.); “νηδύς” S.OC1263; “αὔλιον” Id.Ph.1088 (lyr.); συμφορά, νόσος, Id.El.1179, Tr.1084; ἔρις, φυγά, E.Hel.248 (lyr.), Ph.1710 (lyr.): Sup. τα^λάντατος, η, ον, Ar. Pl.684, 1046, 1060, Pl.Cra.395e.--Poet. word, used by X.Cyr.4.6.5, Ph.2.239, Arr.Epict.2.16.20, Plu.Ant.79, al., Luc.DMeretr.10.3.
II. Τάλας, ὁ, a constellation (θεός τις κατακέφαλα κείμενος) rising with Sagittarius, Cat.Cod.Astr.7.207. [τα^λα_ς A.Pr.158 (anap.), S. (v. supr.), Ar.Ach.163,1192, Pax79, Av.1494, Pl.930; Dor. also τα^λα^ς Theoc.2.4, AP9.378 (Pall.): voc. “τάλα^ν” Thgn.512, S.Ph.1196 (lyr.), Ar.Ec.658,1005 (both anap.).]
