spiteful, malignant, resentful, injurious, untoward, spitefulness of, dreadful
spiteful, malignant, resentful, ἀλλά τις οὐκ ἔμμι παλιγκότων ὄργαν Sapph. 72; κληδόνες π. injurious, untoward reports, A. Ag. 863, 874; π. τύχη the spitefulness of fortune, ib. 571; πῆμα Pi. O. 2.20; π. ὄψιν ἰδοῦσα a dreadful sight, Mosch. 4.92; τὰ π. λέγειν Antipho Soph. 49.
2 hostile, malignant, adversaries, ill, resentfully
of persons, hostile, malignant, τινι Ar. Pax 390, Euph. 51.12, etc.; πρὸς πάντα π. Theoc. 22.58; οἱ παλίγκοτοι adversaries, Pi. N. 4.96, A. Supp. 376. Adv., αὐτῷ . . -τως συνεφέρετο it fared ill with him, Hdt. 4.156; φέρειν τὰ συμπίπτοντα μὴ π. to bear accidents not resentfully, E. Fr. 572.2.
II growing malignant, festering
metaph., of wounds or injuries, growing malignant, festering, Hp. Art. 27 (Sup.).
III steep, rugged
steep, rugged, πάγος τρηχύς τε καὶ π. Archil. 87. (Cf. ἀλλόκοτος).