σχέτλιον (schetlion)

σχέτλιον is an Ancient Greek form of σχέτλιος, meaning “cruel, reckless, wretched”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lysander 15.3: … ον ἧς ἡ ἀρχή Ἀγαμέμνονος ὦ κόρα, ἤλυθον, Ἠλέκτρα, ποτὶ σὰν ἀγρότειραν αὐλάν, πάντας ἐπικλασθῆναι, καὶ φανῆναι σχέτλιον ἔργον τὴν οὕτως εὐκλεᾶ καὶ τοιούτους ἄνδρας φέρουσαν ἀνελεῖν καὶ διεργάσασθαι πόλιν.

Aristophanes, Lysistrata 498d: σχέτλιόν γε.

All forms of σχέτλιος (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.