suffering, wretched , Lat. miser, (Odyssey by Homer); ὦ τάλαιν᾽ ἐγώ (Aeschulus Tragicus); ὦ τάλαν (Sophocles Tragicus);—;with genitive causae, τάλαιν᾽ ἐγὼ τῆς ὕβρεως wretched that I am for this insolence, (Aristophanes Comicus):—;in bad sense, τάλαν wretch! (Odyssey by Homer)—;comparative τᾶλάντερος, η, ον: Sup. τᾶλάντατος, η, ον, (Aristophanes Comicus)

τᾶλα_; doric also τᾶλᾶς: vocative τάλᾶν. (ML)