Δειλάκρα

Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "pitiable me, I'm being torn up!"¹ He is mocking a lecherous old woman. Pitiable [means] supremely wretched.
Also [sc. attested is the related term] deilakri/wn, [meaning] he who is supremely cowardly; he who is pitiful, unfortunate; or suffering. The same Aristophanes [writes]: "o craven, o stingy man! You see how I no longer seem to you to be the most iniquitous person."²