πέλωρ
pelor
portent, prodigy, monster
Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
πέλωρ, τό, A. 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 , 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 D. 24.257.—Cf. πέλωρος.
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