τάλας
(see. entry near the end), τάλαινα, τάλαν (feminine τάλας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 1038)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: genitive ᾰνος, αίνης, ανος, also dative τάλαντι [[ 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 12: _vocative_ τάλαν] Refs 6th c.BC+], masculine in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.327, 19.68, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 512, etc., _feminine_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 559, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+] (adverb accusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 160.11, Hdn.Gr. 2.12, +others)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: Aeolic dialect nominative τάλαις [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.126 ] Refs 4th c.AD+] H.: (Τλάω):—suffering, wretched, ξεῖνε τάλαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.327, etc.; ὦ τάλας ἐγώ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1338, 1401, “Aj.” 981; ὦ τάλαιν᾽ ἐγώ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 743; ὦ τάλαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1196 (Lyric poetry): with _genitive_ causae, οἲ γὼ τάλαινα συμφορᾶς κακῆς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 445, compare 517; τάλαιν᾽ ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1044 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes in bad sense, τάλαν wretch! [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.68: but in Comedy texts, τάλαινα] Refs 8th c.BC+] poor dear! as a sort of coaxing address, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 910, 914; so ὦ τάλαινα [prev. author] “Ec.” 242. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Trag. also of things, sorry, wretched, μόχθοι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1069 (_anapaest meter_); παρακοπά [prev. author] “Ag.” 223 (Lyric poetry); πάθος [prev. author] “Th.” 988 (Lyric poetry); νηδύς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1263; αὔλιον [prev. author] “Ph.” 1088 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συμφορά, νόσος, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 1179, “Tr.” 1084 ] Refs]; ἔρις, φυγά, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 248 (Lyric poetry), “Ph.” 1710 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative τᾰλάντατος, η, ον, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 684, 1046, 1060, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 395e.--poetical word, used by 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.5, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.239, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.16.20, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 79, +others, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 10.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]