- δύστηνος
- δύστηνος, [dialect] Dor. [full] δύστᾱνος, ον,A wretched, unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, poet. Adj.:1 mostly of persons, as always in Hom. and mostly Trag., A.Pers.909 (anap.), etc.; δυστήνων δέ τε παῖδες ἐμῷ μένει ἀντιόωσιν unhappy are they whose sons . . , Il.6.127.2 of sufferings and the like ,
μόχθος δ. Pi.P.4.268
;θέρος A.Ag.1655
;αἰκίαι S.El.511
(lyr.);ὄνειδος Id.Aj.1191
(lyr.);ὄνειρος Ar.Ra.1333
(lyr.);πάθος D.H.6.20
. Adv., [comp] Sup.δυστανοτάτως γηράσκω E.Supp. 967
(lyr.).II after Hom., in moral sense, wretched, S.El.121 ([comp] Sup., lyr.), Ph.1016;λόγοι E.HF1346
.—Rare in Prose, though D. 19.255 has δ. λογάρια, in latter sense: [comp] Sup. (v. supr. 1); no [comp] Comp. is found. (Cf. ἄστηνος.)
Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό). 2014.