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πέλωρ

πέλωρ, a portent, prodigy, monster

πέλωρ, τό,
  • portent, prodigy, monster, Ep. Noun, only nom. and acc., in early writers always of living beings, mostly in bad sense, as of the Cyclops, π. ἀθεμίστια εἰδώς Od. 9.428; αὐτὴ δʼ αὖτε π. κακόν, of Scylla, 12.87; of the serpent Python, h.Ap. 374; of a dolphin, π. μέγα τε δεινόν τε ib. 401; even of Hephaestus, π. αἴητον ἀνέστη χωλεύων Il. 18.410; later, of things, εὐρυτενὴς ὠγκοῦτο π. μίτος Nonn. D. 24.257.—Cf. πέλωρος.

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