Δύσζηλοι

exceedingly jealous

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo22 Mar 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

6 words

[Meaning they who are] most/very spiteful.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δύσζηλοι· φθονερώτατοι.

Betacode

*du/szhloi: fqonerw/tatoi.

Both headword and gloss are nominative masculine plurals. Probably from a scholion to Homer, Odyssey 7.307, where the rare headword occurs (web address 1). See also under omicron 251.
Though the glossing adjective as such is common in all periods, its superlative, as here, is rare until the C4 AD onwards; see e.g. Greek Anthology 5.3.3 (Antipater of Thessalonica).