A.more or most painful, grievous, or distressing: — of Comp., Hom. has only neut. ἄλγιον, in signf. so much the worse, “τῷ δ᾽ ἄλγιον, αἴ κ᾽ ἐθέλῃσιν . . ἄμμι μάχεσθαι” Il.18.278, cf. 306, Od.4.292: Sup. only in Il.23.655 ἥτ᾽ ἀλγίστη δαμάσασθαι (of a mule).— Both are common in Trag., as “ἀλγίων” A.Pr.934, S.Ant.64; “ἄλγιστος” Id.OT 675, etc. [“-ι^ον” Hom., -ι_ον Trag.]
ἀλγ-ίων , ον, ἄλγιστος , η, ον, irreg. Comp. and Sup. of ἀλγεινός, formed fr. Subst. ἄλγος (cf. καλλίων, αἰσχίων): —
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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