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β296Βιοστερῆlife-bereft… the quotation given, is accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Creon [Author, Myth]'s description of Oedipus in Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 746-7 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

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Βιοστερῆ

life-bereft

[Meaning] deficient/in need. "[...] and proceeding, life-bereft, with only a single handmaid."

Βιοστερῆ· ἐνδεᾶ. κἀπὶ προσπόλου μιᾶς βιοστερῆ χωροῦντα.