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 δ᾽ 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.
πέλωρ , τό,
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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