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 δ' αὖτε π. κακόν, of Scylla, 12.87 ; of the serpent Python,h.Ap. 374 ; of a dolphin,π. μέγα τε δεινόν τεib. 401 ; even of Hephaestus, π. αἴητον ἀνέστη χωλεύων
Il. 18.410
; later, of things, εὐρυτενὴς ὠγκοῦτο π. μίτος
Nonn. D. 24.257
.—Cf.πέλωρος.