The corpus record

τᾰλαίπωρος

talaiporos

suffering, distressed, miserable

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Where it lives

Suppliants 5 · 7.11/10k
Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Orestes 4 · 4.08/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 4 · 3.86/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Helen 2 · 2.04/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

suffering, distressed, miserable, hardihood, a hard life

suffering, distressed, miserable, Θῆβαι Pi. Fr. 197; βροτοί A. Pr. 233; ὦ ταλαίπωρʼ ib. 317, cf. 595 (lyr.), 623, S. OC 14, etc.; ἀνδρῶν γένος Id. Fr. 945; τ. ἄρα τις σύ γε Pl. Euthd. 302b; τὸ τ. hardihood, Ar. Nu. 414; a hard life, Hp. Aër. 19. Adv. -ρως Ar. Ec. 54, Th. 3.4.

of things, τ. βίος S. OC 91; πράγματα Ar. Av. 135; πάθος Alex. 144; ταλαιπωρότερον οὐδέν ἐστι . . τῆς γαστρός Diph. 60.3.

In the wild

ταλαιπώρων · talaipōrōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 233–235
ταλαίπωρʼ · talaipōrʼ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 317–318
ταλαιπώρῳ · talaipōrōi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 622–623
ταλαιπώρως · talaipōrōs Aristotle, Politics 1265a (DIORISIS sentence 493)
ταλαίπωρον · talaipōron Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1258)
ταλαίπωρε · talaipōre Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5172)

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Where it came from

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