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δυσέκθυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσέκθυτος δυσέκθυτον

Structure: δυσεκθυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)kqu/omai

Sense

  1. hard to avert by sacrifice

Examples

  • ἡσυχῇ δὲ παρεδήλουν καί οἱ μάντεισ ὡσ ἀεὶ πονηρὰ σημεῖα καί δυσέκθυτα προφαίνοιτο τῷ Κράσσῳ διὰ τῶν ἱερῶν, ἀλλ’ οὔτε τούτοισ προσεῖχεν οὔτε τοῖσ ἕτερόν τι πλὴν ἐπείγεσθαι παραινοῦσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 18 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to avert by sacrifice

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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