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μιαρός

μιαρός, μιαρός ά όν, foul, polluted (adjective)

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μιαρέ Adjective: masculine vocative singular of μιαρός

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μῐᾰρός, ά, όν, (μιαίνω)
  • stained with blood, περὶ δʼ αἷμα νένιπται, οὐδέ ποθι μιαρός Il. 24.420.
      • 2 defiled with blood, Κιθαιρών E. Ba. 1384 (anap.); μ. ἡμέραι certain days in the month Anthesterion, on which expiatory libations (χοαί) were offered to the dead, Hsch.; at Rome, ἡμέρα μ., = dies nefastus, D.C. 51.19; μιαρά, τά, actions resulting in ritual impurity, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.157 (Cyrene).
      • 3 generally, defiled, polluted, μ. καὶ ἄναγνος Antipho 2.1.10, cf. Pl. Lg. 716e; of animals, unclean, ὗν δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι μιαρὸν ἥγηνται θηρίον εἶναι Hdt. 2.47; θάλασσα ὕδωρ -ώτατον Heraclit. 61.
      • 4 in moral sense, abominable, foul, ὦ μ. ἦθος S. Ant. 746; repulsive to the moral sense, Arist. Po. 1452b36, al.: freq. in Ar. as a term of reproach, blackguard, μ. κεφαλή Ach. 285, cf. 282; μιαρώτατος ib. 182; μ. φωνή coarse, brutal voice, Eq. 218, cf. S. Tr. 987 (anap.); μιαρώτατος περὶ τὸν δῆμον Ar. Eq. 831; μ. τε καὶ ὀλιγαρχικούς Pl. R. 562d. Adv. -ρῶς Ar. Eq. 800; οὕτω φανερῶς καὶ μ. D. 21.69.
      • 5 ὦ μιαρέ you rogue, in a coaxing sense, Pl. Phdr. 236e, al.
      • 6 = μάχλος, γύναικες μιαρώταται Alc. 39.
      • 7 physically ugly, γυναῖκα ὀφθῆναι μ. X.Eph. 3.12.

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