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δυσείσπλους

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσείσπλους δυσείσπλουν

Structure: δυσεισπλο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to sail into

Examples

  • ὅμωσ οὖν ἔτι μένει δυσείσπλοα διά τε τὴν λαβρότητα καὶ τὴν πρόσχωσιν καὶ τὴν ταπεινότητα τῆσ χώρασ, ὥστε μὴ καθορᾶσθαι μηδ’ ἐγγὺσ ἐν ταῖσ δυσαερίαισ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 16:5)

Synonyms

  1. hard to sail into

Similar forms

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

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