with bad wings, weak in the wing, a bird of ill omen
with bad wings, weak in the wing, opp. εὔπτερος, Arist. HA 617b4, al.; of the Sphinx, as a bird of ill omen, Epigr. ap. Sch. E. Ph. 50.
The corpus record
κᾰκό-πτερος
kakopteros
with bad wings, weak in the wing
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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