LogeionPerseus analysis of δειλός:
δειλός (cowardly): masc nom sg
LSJ entry
δειλός
δειλός,
ή,
όν, (
δέος):
I. of persons, cowardly, opp. ἄλκιμος, Il. 13.278;
opp. ἀνδρεῖος, Pl. Phdr. 239a,
etc.: hence, vile, worthless, Il. 1.293;
δειλαί τοι δειλῶν γε καὶ ἐγγύαι Od. 8.351;
opp. ἐσθλός, lowborn, mean, Hes. Fr. 164;
πλοῦτος καὶ δειλοῖσιν ἀνθρώπων ὁμιλεῖ B. 1.50;
ἀγαθοὶ δειλῶν ἐπὶ δαῖτας ἴσιν Eup. 289;
of animals, Hdt. 3.108:
c.gen., δειλὸς μυάγρης afraid of . ., AP 9.410 (Tull. Sab.): c.inf.,
ib.6.232 (
Crin.).
Adv.-λῶς Theoc. Adon. 15,
Plu. 2.26b. II. of things, miserable, wretched, γῆρας Hes. Op. 113;
δ. δʼ ἐνὶ πυθμένι φειδώ ib.369;
τὰ δ. κέρδη S. Ant. 326;
ἔργα, λόγος, etc., Thgn. 307,
E. Andr. 757,
etc.: Comp.,
Longin. 2.1:
Sup.,
Ar. Pl. 123:
neut. pl. as Adv.,
ὀχλεῖ μοι δειλὰ ὁ Τρωΐλος PIand. 11.4 (iii A.D.).—Trag. use δειλός chiefly in former sense, δείλαιος in latter.