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δειλός , ή, όν, (δέος):
I. of persons, cowardly, opp. ἄλκιμος, Il. 13.278; opp. ἀνδρεῖος, Pl.Phdr.239a, etc.: hence, vile, worthless, Il. 1.293; “δειλαί τοι δειλῶν γε καὶ ἐγγύαι” Od.8.351; opp. ἐσθλός, lowborn, mean, Hes.Fr.164; “πλοῦτος καὶ δειλοῖσιν ἀνθρώπων ὁμιλεῖ” B. 1.50; “ἀγαθοὶ δειλῶν ἐπὶ δαῖτας ἴσιν” Eup.289; of animals, Hdt.3.108: c.gen., “δειλὸς μυάγρης” afraid of . ., AP9.410 (Tull. Sab.): c.inf., ib.6.232 (Crin.). Adv.“-λῶς” Theoc.Adon.15, Plu.2.26b.
2. more commonly, miserable, wretched, with a compassionate sense, δειλοὶ βροτοί poor mortals! Il.22.31, al.; ἆ δειλέ poor wretch! “ἆ δειλοί” poor wretches! 17.201, Od.20.351; “ἆ δειλὲ ξείνων” 14.361; “Πατροκλῆος δειλοῖο” Il.17.670.
II. of things, miserable, wretched, “γῆρας” Hes.Op.113; δ. δ᾽ ἐνὶ πυθμένι φειδώ ib.369; “τὰ δ. κέρδη” S.Ant.326; ἔργα, λόγος, etc., Thgn.307, E.Andr.757, etc.: Comp., Longin.2.1: Sup., Ar.Pl.123: neut. pl. as Adv., “ὀχλεῖ μοι δειλὰ ὁ Τρωΐλος” PIand. 11.4 (iii A.D.).—Trag. use δειλός chiefly in former sense, δείλαιος in latter.
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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