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ἀργαλέος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργαλέος ἀργαλέη ἀργαλέον

Structure: ἀργαλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/lgos, as if a)lgale/os

Sense

  1. painful, troublous, grievous, difficult
  2. troublesome

Examples

  • καὶ χάριν ἀμφιχέαι κεφαλῇ χρυσέην Ἀφροδίτην καὶ πόθον ἀργαλέον καὶ γυιοβόρουσ μελεδώνασ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 10:5)
  • εἰρήνη δ’ ἀνὰ γῆν κουροτρόφοσ, οὐδέ ποτ’ αὐτοῖσ ἀργαλέον πόλεμον τεκμαίρεται εὐρύοπα Ζεύσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 27:11)
  • τῶν ὄνομ’ ἀργαλέον πάντων βροτὸν ἀνέρ’ ἐνισπεῖν, οἳ δὲ ἕκαστοι ἴσασιν, ὅσοι περιναιετάωσιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 36:6)
  • ὡσ ἀργαλέον πρᾶγμ’ ἐστὶν ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοὶ δοῦλον γενέσθαι παραφρονοῦντοσ δεσπότου. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 1:1)
  • τὸν δ’ ὑποκριτὴν ἕτερον ἀργαλέον ὡσ σοφόν· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, epirrheme3)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. troublesome

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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