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δυσέξοδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσέξοδος δυσέξοδον

Structure: δυσεξοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to get out of

Examples

  • ἡ γὰρ στενότησ ἡ τοῦ χωρίου καὶ τὸ φύσει δυσέξοδον αὐτοῦ καὶ κλύδων ἐπιπεσὼν καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα, ὑπὸ τῶν περικειμένων ὀρῶν ἐσ θυέλλασ περικλώμενον, καὶ ὁ τοῦ βυθοῦ σπασμὸσ ἐπὶ πάντα εἱλούμενοσ οὔτε μένειν οὔτε φεύγειν ἐπέτρεπε· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 10 3:6)
  • ἀξιολογώτατον δὲ εἶναι τοῦτο ἔδοξέν οἱ τῶν κατειργασμένων, οὐ τοσοῦτον ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ὅτι ἀνδρείᾳ τοὺσ ἀποθανόντασ ὑπὸ Θησέωσ ὑπερέβαλεν ὁ Ἀστερίων, ἀλλὰ τό τε ἐκ τοῦ λαβυρίνθου δυσέξοδον καὶ <τὸ> λαθόντα ἀποδρᾶναι μετὰ τὸ ἔργον ἐποίησεν εἰκότα τὸν λόγον ὡσ προνοίᾳ θείᾳ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀνασωθείη Θησεὺσ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to get out of

Related

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

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