- μιαρός
- μῐᾰρός, ά, όν, ([etym.] μιαίνω)A stained with blood,
περὶ δ' αἷμα νένιπται, οὐδέ ποθι μιαρός Il.24.420
.2 defiled with blood,Κιθαιρών E.Ba.1384
(anap.); μ. ἡμέραι certain days in the month Anthesterion, on which expiatory libations ([etym.] χοαί) were offered to the dead, Hsch.; at Rome, ἡμέρα μ., = dies nefastus, D.C.51.19; μιαρά, τά, actions resulting in ritual impurity, Berl.Sitzb.1927.157 ([place name] Cyrene).3 generally, defiled, polluted,μ. καὶ ἄναγνος Antipho 2.1.10
, cf. Pl.Lg.716e; of animals, unclean,ὗν δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι μιαρὸν ἥγηνται θηρίον εἶναι Hdt. 2.47
;θάλασσα ὕδωρ -ώτατον Heraclit.61
.4 in moral sense, abominable, foul,ὦ μ. ἦθος S.Ant.746
; repulsive to the moral sense, Arist.Po.1452b36, al.: freq. in Ar. as a term of reproach, blackguard,μ. κεφαλή Ach. 285
, cf. 282; μιαρώτατος ib.182; μ. φωνή coarse, brutal voice, Eq. 218, cf. S.Tr.987 (anap.);μιαρώτατος περὶ τὸν δῆμον Ar.Eq.831
;μ. τε καὶ ὀλιγαρχικούς Pl.R.562d
. Adv. -ρῶς Ar.Eq.800
;οὕτω φανερῶς καὶ μ. D.21.69
.5 ὦ μιαρέ you rogue, in a coaxing sense, Pl. Phdr.236e, al.7 physically ugly,γυναῖκα ὀφθῆναι μ. X.Eph.3.12
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