στυγν-ός, ή, όν,
hated, abhorred, of persons and things, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 80; ἄτη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 886 (_anapaest meter_); ὦ στυγνὲ δαῖμον [prev. author] “Pers.” 472; ὦ στυγνὸς αἰών 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1348; λῶβαι [prev. author] “Aj.” 561, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]: with dative, hateful or hostile to one, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 286 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 918 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb comparative -οτέρως, ἔχειν πρός τινα [[ “BGU” 1301.8 (2nd-1st c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II gloomy, sullen, πρόσωπον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 639, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 777; ὀφρύων νέφος [prev. author] “Hipp.” 172 (_anapaest meter_), compare 290; στυγνοὶ κλαίουσιν Ἔρωτες 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.67 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁρᾶν στυγνός, opposed to φαιδρός, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.9, compare 11, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.182, LXX.Isa.57.17, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.5.9 (_comparative_), 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.5; νύξ LXX.Wis.17.5 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; οἱονεὶ πυρὸς εἰσπεσόντος εἰς ὕδωρ στυγνὸν σέλας ἐκπέμπουσα [λιγνύς] [[ 4th c.AD: Adamantius Physiognomonicus “Vent.” 34 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; σ. διαγωγαὶ καὶ ἀναγνώσεις καὶ διηγήματα, opposed to ἐρεθιστικὰ τῶν ἀφροδισίων, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.46 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; στυγνὸς μὲν εἴκων δῆλος εἶ sullenly, with an ill grace, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 673 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: neuter as adverb, στυγνὸν οἰμώξας [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1226. ] Refs]