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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

  • λοιπὸν ἔχοντεσ μὲν τὰσ πλείστασ ἐλπίδασ ἐν τοῖσ ἱππεῦσιν καὶ τοῖσ θηρίοισ, ἀφέμενοι δὲ τῶν ἐπιπέδων χωρίων καὶ συγκλείσαντεσ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τόπουσ ἐρυμνοὺσ καὶ δυσβάτουσ, ἔμελλον διδάξειν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ὃ δέον ἦν πράττειν κατ’ αὐτῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 30 8:1)
  • διὰ δὲ τούτου φέρεσθαι τὸν προειρημένον ποταμὸν ἐπικάρσιον, ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν ὀρῶν εὐθέωσ ἐκρήγματα τῶν πλευρῶν, διὰ δὲ τῶν ἐπιπέδων ἑώσ εἰσ θάλατταν ἀποτόμουσ ἔχοντα καὶ δυσβάτουσ λόφουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, v. de callisthenis imperitia in narrandis rebus militaribus 5:1)

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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