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τάλας (talas) miserable ^G:A

τάλας

(see. entry near the end), τάλαινα, τάλαν (feminine τάλας [Refs 5th c.BC+]: genitive ᾰνος, αίνης, ανος, also dative τάλαντι [Refs 6th c.BC+], masculine in [Refs 8th c.BC+] (adverb accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: Aeolic dialect nominative τάλαις [Refs 4th c.AD+] H.: (Τλάω):—suffering, wretched, ξεῖνε τάλαν [τάλας ἐγώ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1338, 1401, “Aj.” 981; ὦ τάλαιν᾽ ἐγώ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 743; ὦ τάλαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1196 (Lyric poetry): with \_genitive\_ causae, οἲ γὼ τάλαινα συμφορᾶς κακῆς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 445, compare 517; τάλαιν᾽ ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1044 ">Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes in bad sense, τάλαν wretch! [Refs 8th c.BC+] poor dear! as a sort of coaxing address, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 in Trag. also of things, sorry, wretched, μόχθοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; συμφορά, νόσος, [Refs]; ἔρις, φυγά, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative τᾰλάντατος, η, ον, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II Τάλας, ὁ, a constellation (θεός τις κατακέφαλα κείμενος) rising with Sagittarius, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect also τᾰλᾰς [Refs 6th c.BC+]