τάλαν (talan)

τάλαν is an Ancient Greek form of τάλας, meaning “wretched, unhappy”. It is the vocative singular neuter adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.82: κἤφα· Δάφνι τάλαν, τί τὺ τάκεαι, ἁ δέ τε κώρα

Euripides, Hippolytus 1148: συζύγιαι Χάριτες, τί τὸν τάλαν’ ἐκ πατρίας γᾶς

Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1039: ἀπὸ δὲ συγγόνων τάλανʼ ἄνομα πάθεα,

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.