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λυγρός , ά, όν,
A.baneful, mournful, ὄλεθρος, γῆρας, Il.10.174, Od.24. 250, etc.; “ἄλγεα” Il.13.346; “ἀνδροκτασίης ὕπο λυγρῆς” 23.86; “λ. δέος” Archil.74.4; ὀνίαν . . λύγραν (gen.pl.) Sapph.Supp.1.10; “νεῖκος” Pi.N.8.25; “μάχαι” B.10.68; “πένθος” A.Ch.17; ὀργά ib.835 (lyr.); πόνοι, νόσος, S.OT184 (lyr.), Ph.1424, etc.; λυγρά bane, misery, Il.24.531, Od.14.226; ruin, 3.303; ἔξοχα λυγρὰ ἰδυῖα versed above all in banes, 11.432, cf. Hes.Th.313; “λυγρὰ νοεῦντες” Id.Op.261.
2. with an act. force, “σήματα λ.” Il.6.168; φάρμακα λυγρά, opp. ἐσθλά, baneful drugs, Od.4.230, 10.236; γαστὴρ λυγρή the stomach that cause of bane, 17.473.
3. λ. εἵματα sorry garments, 16.457.
II. of persons, baneful, mischievous, 9.454: more freq., sorry, i.e. weak, cowardly, Il.13.119, 237, Od.18.107, A.Fr.361, S.Ant.823 (Sup., lyr.).
III. Adv. -ρῶς sorely, “λυγρῶς πεπληγυῖα” Il.5.763. [υ^ by nature, Pi.N.8.25, Mosch.4.73, etc.]
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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