Dictionary Tlêmôn

I. 1. - patient, steadfast, stout-hearted, ho tlêmôn OduseusHom. Il. 10.231, au=Hom. Il. 10.498=lr (to whom a tlêmôn thumos is ascribed, au=Hom. Il. 5.670); tharsaleoi kai tlêmôn au=Hom. Il. 21.430.
I. 2. - in bad sense, overbold, reckless, Thgn.196; tlamoni kai panourgôi cheiri Aesch. Lib. 384 (lyr.); tlêmonestatê gunê Soph. El. 439, cf. au=Soph. El. 275, Aesch. Lib. 596 (lyr.); tlamoni thumôi Eur. Med. 865 (lyr.).
II.1. - wretched, miserable, of persons, Aesch. PB 614, Soph. Phil. 161 (anap.), Aristoph. Peace 723, Xen. Anab. 3.1.29, ti=Xen. Mem. 2.1.30: c. gen., ô tlamôn humenaiôn Eur. Hipp. 554 (lyr.); thanatou tlêmôn Aristoph. Thes. 1072 (anap.).
II. 2.- of conditions, acts, words, etc., tlêmones phugai, tuchai,Eur. Hipp. 1177, ti=Eur. Her. 921 (lyr.); tlêmonestatos logos IDEM=Eur. Hec. 562; hodos tlêmonestatê, -tera, IDEM=Eur. Med. 1067,au=Eur. Med. 1068: sts. also, as we use wretched, in a disparaging sense, tlêmôn gastros erithon HH 4.296; oinos Call.Epigr.62.
III. 1. - Adv. tlêmonôs patiently, Aesch. Lib. 748, Eur. Supp. 947, Gal.14.213.
III. 2. - miserably, Eur. Tro. 40, Hsch.

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