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στύγος [υ^], εος, τό,
A.hatred, A.Ch.392 (lyr.); esp. as expressed in looks, sullenness, gloom, τὸ δύσφρον ς. Id.Ag.547; φρενῶν ς. ib.1308, Ch.81 (lyr.).
II. object of hatred, abomination, Id.Ag.558, A.R.4.445, AP7.405 (Phil.); of persons, δεσπότου ς. thy hated lord, A.Ch. 770; στύγη θεῶν, of the Erinyes, Id.Eu.644, cf. Th.653, Ch.1028; τοῦτ᾽ ἐμήσατο ς. this deed of horror, ib.999(991). Rare, exc. in A.
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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