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δυσμεν-ής , ές, (μένος)
A.hostile, “ἄνδρες δ.” Il.5.488; δυσμενέες enemies, 16.521, cf. Schwyzer 84.12; “δυσμενέων ὄχλος” A.Th.234 (lyr.), cf. 366 (lyr.), Hdt.3.82, S.Aj.662 (Sup.), etc.; “οἱ ὑμέτεροι δ.” X.HG5.2.33: c. dat., “τῷ πατοῦντι δυσμενεῖς” A.Ag.1193, cf. S.Ph.585; “οὐδὲν τυράννου -έστερον πόλει” E.Supp.429: less freq. c. gen., ἄνδρα δ. χθονός an enemy of the land, S.Ant.187, cf. Ph.2.136. Adv. -“νῶς” Pl.Tht.168b; “δ. ἔχειν τινί” Isoc.3.5; “πρὸς τὴν πόλιν” Id.14.6:—poet. δυσμενέως , Nonn.D.21.85 (v.l.).
II. rarely of things, “δ. χοαί” S.El.440; “δυσμενὲς ὁ τοῦ πλεονεκτεῖν ἔρως” X.Mem.2.6.21, cf. E.Alc.617 (v.l.).
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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