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τάλαιναν (talainan)

τάλαιναν is an Ancient Greek form of τάλας, meaning “wretched, unhappy”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.40: ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τήνῳ πᾶσα καταίθομαι, ὅς με τάλαιναν

Euripides, Medea 1260: τάλαινάν τ’ Ἐρινὺν ὑπ’ ἀλαστόρων.

Euripides, Helen 1125: ταλαινᾶν ἀλόχων κείραντες ἔθειραν·

All forms of τάλας (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.