Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δύσβατος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσβατος δύσβατον

Structure: δυσβατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inaccessible, impassable
  2. trodden in sorrow

Examples

  • κρημνώδουσ δ’ οὔσησ καὶ δυσβάτου τῆσ ὁδοῦ συνέβαινε τούσ τε ἐλέφαντασ καὶ τοὺσ ἱππεῖσ, ἔτι δὲ τοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ βαρέσιν ὅπλοισ κινδυνεύειν ἅμα καὶ πονεῖν, ἀδυνατοῦντασ ἑαυτοῖσ βοηθῆσαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 19 7:1)
  • ζητούμενοσ δὲ κἀνταῦθα ἔφευγε διὰ δυσβάτου καὶ ἀκανθώδουσ ὁδοῦ, τὸ τραῦμα περικεντούμενοσ, μέχρι κάμνων ὑπό τι δένδρον ἐκαθέζετο καὶ τῶν ζητητῶν ἐπιπεσόντων οὐκ ἀγεννῶσ αὐτοὺσ ἀμυνόμενοσ κατεκόπη. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 15 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. inaccessible

  2. trodden in sorrow

Related

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

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