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διαπάλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαπάλη

Structure: διαπαλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hard struggle

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ Μάρκιοσ ἑτέρων μᾶλλον ἐμπαθὴσ γεγονὼσ πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμικοὺσ ἀγῶνασ, εὐθὺσ ἐκ παιδὸσ τὰ ὅπλα διὰ χειρὸσ εἶχε, καὶ τῶν ἐπικτήτων οὐδὲν ἔργον οἰόμενοσ εἶναι τοῖσ μὴ τὸ σύμφυτον ὅπλον καὶ συγγενὲσ ἐξηρτυμένον ἔχουσι καὶ παρεσκευασμένον, οὕτωσ ἤσκησε τὸ σῶμα πρὸσ ἅπασαν ἰδέαν μάχησ ὥστε καὶ θεῖν ἐλαφρὸν εἶναι καὶ βάροσ ἔχειν ἐν λαβαῖσ καὶ ἐν διαπάλαισ πολέμου δυσεκβίαστον. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 2 1:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Γωβρύησ εἰσ σκοτεινὸν οἴκημα τῷ μάγῳ φεύγοντι συνεισπεσὼν καὶ γενόμενοσ ἐν διαπάλαισ ἐπιστάντα καὶ διαποροῦντα τὸν Δαρεῖον ἐκέλευσεν ὠθεῖν καὶ δι’ ἀμφοτέρων· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 4 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hard struggle

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

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