A.“τλῆμον” A.Pr.614, but “ἰὼ τλάμων” S.Aj.893 (lyr.); τλήμων ἀνήρ (ἄνερ codd.) E.Andr.348, cf. Hipp.554 (lyr.): (Τλάω):—poet. Adj., used by X. and Aret. (v. infr.):
I. patient, steadfast, stout-hearted, “ὁ τλήμων Ὀδυσεύς” Il.10.231,498 (to whom a τλήμων θυμός is ascribed, 5.670); θαρσαλέοι καὶ τ. 21.430; “ψυχὴν καὶ θυμὸν τλήμονα παρθέμενος” Tyrt.12.18; “τλάμονι ψυχᾷ” Pi.P.1.48; τλήμονες, οἷον ἀγῶνα . . τελέσαντες . . ψυχὰς . . ὠλέσατ' Ath.Mitt.57.142 (Athens, v. B.C.); “τλήμων οὖσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐτόλμου φρενός” A. Ag.1302; of patients, Aret.CD1.4; “τ. ἐς παιδείην” Id.SD2.6: Sup. “-εστάτη” E.Heracl.570.
2. in bad sense, overbold, reckless, Thgn. 196; “τλάμονι καὶ πανούργῳ χειρί” A.Ch.384 (lyr.); “τλημονεστάτη γυνή” S.El.439, cf. 275, A.Ch.596 (lyr.); “τλάμονι θυμῷ” E.Med.865 (lyr.).
II. wretched, miserable, of persons, A.Pr.614, S.Ph.161 (anap.), Ar.Pax723, X.An.3.1.29, Mem.2.1.30: c. gen., “ὦ τλάμων ὑμεναίων” E.Hipp.554 (lyr.); “θανάτου τλήμων” Ar.Th.1072 (anap.).
2. of conditions, acts, words, etc., τλήμονες φυγαί, τύχαι, E.Hipp.1177, HF921 (lyr.); “τλημονέστατος λόγος” Id.Hec.562; ὁδὸς τλημονεστάτη, -τέρα, Id.Med.1067,1068: sts. also, as we use wretched, in a disparaging sense, “τ. γαστρὸς ἔριθον” h.Merc.296; “οἶνος” Call.Epigr.62.
2. miserably, E.Tr.40, Hsch.