δείλην (deilen)

δείλην is an Ancient Greek form of δειλός, meaning “cowardly, wretched”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of δείλη, “afternoon”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.74.2: γενομένης δὲ τῆς τροπῆς περὶ δείλην ὀψίαν, δείσαντες οἱ ὀλίγοι μὴ αὐτοβοεὶ ὁ δῆμος τοῦ τε νεωρίου κρατήσειεν ἐπελθὼν καὶ σφᾶς διαφθείρειεν, ἐμπιπ …

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1109: δεινὴν δειλὴν ἀγαθὴν φαύλην σεμνὴν ἀγανὴν πολύπειρον·

Appianus of Alexandria, Punic Wars 18.122: … ἐλύπει, εὐμαρῶς τε ὑποφεύγοντα καὶ εὐμαρῶς ἐπιπλέοντα. ἀκρίτου δʼ ἔτι τῆς ναυμαχίας οὔσης, και τῆς ἡμερας ἐς δειλην τρεπομενης, ἔδοξε τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις ὑποχωρεῖν, οὔ τι κατὰ ἧτταν ἀλλʼ ἐς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ὑπερτιθεμένοις.

All forms of δειλός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.