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στυ^γερ-ός , ά, όν, poet. Adj.
A.hated, abominated, loathed, or hateful, abominable, loathsome, freq. in Ep. and Trag., both of persons and things; “ς. Ἀΐδης” Il.8.368; “Ἐρινῦς” Od.2.135; δαίμων, πόλεμος, γάμος, πένθος, etc., 5.396, Il.4.240, Od.1.249, Il.22.483, etc.; μοῖρα, μοῦσα, A.Pers.909 (anap.), Eu.308 (anap.); “γᾶ” S.Ph.1175 (lyr.); “μάτηρ” E.Med.113 (anap.); “τυραννίη” Xenoph.3.2: c. dat., hateful to one, Il. 14.158; λάθα Πιερίσι ς. S.Fr.568 (lyr.).
2. hateful, wretched, “βίος” Id.Tr.1017 (s. v.l., lyr.); ς. πάθεα, ς. ἐγώ, Ar.Ach.1191, 1208 (paratrag.); “πλοῦτος . . θνᾴσκοντι -ώτατος” Pi.O.10(11).90.
II. Adv. -ρῶς to one's sorrow, miserably, Il.16.723, Od.23.23, S.Ph.166 (lyr., nisi leg. σμυγερῶς).
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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