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ἀμέγαρτος , ον, poet. Adj., (ἀ- priv., μεγαίρω)
A.unenviable:
1. mostly of things or conditions, sad, melancholy, “πόνος” Il.2.420; “ἀνέμων . . ἀϋτμή” Od.11.400; “μάχη” Hes.Th.666; “ἀμέγαρτα κακῶν” E. Hec.192; “πάθος” Ar.Th.1049 (lyr.), cf. A.Pr.403.
2. undesirable, “κρέα” AP11.60 (Paul. Sil.); ἄγρη, of fish which follow a wreck, Opp. H.4.412.
3. of persons, unhappy, miserable, ἀμέγαρτε συβῶτα wretched swineherd! Od.17.219; “ἀμεγάρτων φῦλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” h.Merc. 542; “ἀ. ποίμνα” A.Supp.642 (lyr.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 403
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 642
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 1049
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 192
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 666
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.400
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.219
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 542
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.420
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