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λευγα^λέος , α, ον, (v. λυγρός):
1. of persons, in sad or sorry plight, wretched, “πτωχῷ λ. ἐναλίγκιον” Od.16.273; “λ. ἐσόμεσθα” 2.61. Adv. -έως, χωρεῖν to go in ill plight, Il.13.723.
II. of conditions, etc., sore, baneful, νῦν δέ με λ. θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι, i.e. by drowning, 21.281, cf. Od.15.359; κήδεσιν . . λευγαλέοισι ib.399; “ἄλγεσι λ.” 20.203; “πολέμοιο μεθήσετε λ.” Il.13.97; “ἐν δαῒ λ.” 14.387; “φρεσὶ λ. πιθήσας” 9.119; “λ. ἐπέεσσιν” 20.109; “ἤθεα λ.” Hes.Op.525; ποινή ib.754; “κόρος” Thgn.1174; “ἀνῖαι” A.R.1.295; “κέντρον” Nic.Th. 836.
2. rarely of material objects, λ. χιτών sorry tunic, Philet. 17.
3. λευγαλέα: διάβροχος, Phot., cf. EM561.28 (prob. an error due to misunderstanding of S.Fr.785).
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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