δυσμενής

dysmenes

hostile

Appears 3 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 1
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Book XI 1
Chapter ?

927b4
Protagoras 1
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Chapter ?

317b1
Theaetetus 1
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168b3

Dictionary (LSJ)

δυσμενής, ές, (μένος) A. hostile, ἄνδρες δ. Il. 5.488; δυσμενέες enemies, 16.521, cf. Schwyzer 84.12; δυσμενέων ὄχλος A. Th. 234 (lyr.), cf. 366 (lyr.), Hdt. 3.82, S. Aj. 662 (Sup.), etc.; οἱ ὑμέτεροι δ. X. HG 5.2.33: c. dat., τῷ πατοῦντι δυσμενεῖς A. Ag. 1193, cf. S. Ph. 585; οὐδὲν τυράννου -έστερον πόλει E. Supp. 429: less freq. c. gen., ἄνδρα δ. χθονός an enemy of the land, S. Ant. 187, cf. Ph. 2.136. Adv. -νῶς Pl. Tht. 168b; δ. ἔχειν τινί Isoc. 3.5; πρὸς τὴν πόλιν Id. 14.6:—poet. δυσμενέως, Nonn. D. 21.85 (v.l.). II. rarely of things, δ. χοαί S. El. 440; δυσμενὲς ὁ τοῦ πλεονεκτεῖν ἔρως X. Mem. 2.6.21, cf. E. Alc. 617 (v.l.).

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