δεινός (deinos1)

What it meant

1. δεινός · deinos — LSJ

fearful, terrible, fearful, awful, danger, suffering, horror, awe, terror, danger, fear, greatest danger, dangerous, take ill, complain of, be indignant at, make complaints, illegal, arbitrary, dire

fearful, terrible; in Hom., of persons and things, Χάρυβδις Od. 12.260; κλαγγή Il. 1.49; ὅπλα 10.254: freq. in neut., δεινὸν ἀῧσαι 11.10; βροντᾶν 20.56; δεινὸν δέρκεσθαι 3.342; παπταίνειν Od. 11.608; δεινὰ δʼ ὑποδρὰ ἰδών Il. 15.13; δ. ἰδέσθαι fearful to behold, Od. 22.405; δ. μὲν ὁρᾶν, δ. δὲ κλύειν S. OC 141; εἰ καὶ δεινόν τῳ ἀκοῦσαι Th. 1.122; δεινὴ παρὰ τοῖς εἰδόσιν ἡ βάσανος And. 1.30; in milder sense, awful, δεινή τε καὶ αἰδοίη θεός Il. 18.394, cf. 3.172, Od. 8.22, etc.; τὸ δεινόν danger, su

II marvellously strong, powerful, mighty, wondrous, marvellous, strange, have strange power, strange, marvellously, exceedingly

marvellously strong, powerful: δ. σάκος the mighty shield, Il. 7.245; simply, wondrous, marvellous, strange, τὸ συγγενές τοι δεινὸν ἥ θʼ ὁμιλία kin and social ties have strange power, A. Pr. 39; δ. τὸ κοινὸν σπλάγχνον Id. Th. 1036; δ. τὸ τίκτειν S. El. 770; πολλὰ τὰ δ. κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου -ότερον πέλει. Id. Ant. 333; δ. ἵμερος, ἔρως, Hdt. 9.3, Pl. Tht. 169c; οἶκτος S. Tr. 298, etc.; δ. λέγεις πρᾶγμα Pl. Euthd. 298c; δ. γʼ εἶπας, εἰ καὶ ζῇς θανών S. Aj. 1127; freq. δεινὸν ἂν εἴη εἰ . . it were strang

III clever, skilful, practical ability, clever, wonderfully liable, forcible, vehement, over-clever

clever, skilful, first in Hdt. 5.23 ἀνὴρ δ. τε καὶ σοφός; of Odysseus, γλώσσῃ . . δεινοῦ καὶ σοφοῦ S. Ph. 440, cf. OC 806, Antipho 2.2.3, Lys. 7.12; σοφὸς καὶ δ. Pl. Prt. 341a; opp. σοφός, of practical ability, Id. Phdr. 245c, Tht. 164d; opp. ἰδιώτης, D. 4.35: c. inf., δεινὸς εὑρεῖν A. Pr. 59; δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς Αἰγύπτιοι Id. Fr. 373; δ. λέγειν clever at speaking, S. OT 545, etc.; δ. εἰπεῖν is rare, D. 20.150; νόσος δ. φαγεῖν Ar. Nu. 243; δ. πράγμασι χρῆσθαι D. 1.3; αἱ εὐπραξίαι δ. συγκρ

2. δεῖνος · deinos — LSJ

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