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ἀτυ^χ-ής , ές,
A.unfortunate, Antipho 2.2.1 (Sup.); “οὐ γὰρ οὕτως ἄφρων οὐδ᾽ ἀ. εἰμι” D.3.21; euphem., ἀ. γενέσθαι 'get into trouble', Pl.Lg.905a: late acc. fem. “ἀτυχήν” Annales du Service22.10 (i B.C./i A.D.). Adv. “-χῶς” Isoc.12.15: Sup. “-έστατα” Longin.33.5.
II. missing, without share in, “τινός” Ael.NA11.31, Max.Tyr.20.5. -ία, ἡ, ill-luck, Amphis 3.
II. = ἀτύχημα, miscarriage, mishap, Hp.Fract.25, Antipho 2.2.13, X.Mem. 3.9.8(pl.), Men.674; defeat in war, Aeschin.3.55.
2. euphem. for ἀτιμία, D.21.59; for crime, Din.1.77, Plb.12.13.5, etc.
3. of a person, “ἀ. κοσμουμένα” Axiop.4.5.
4. failure to obtain, “τινός” Aret.SD1.5.
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 (12):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 55
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 2.1
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 2.13
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 3, 21
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 59
    • Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 15
    • Plato, Laws, 905a
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.9.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 12.13.5
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 25
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.5
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 11.31
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