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δυσέμβατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσέμβατος δυσέμβατον

Structure: δυσεμβατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to walk on

Examples

  • ἀκόλουθον δ’ ἂν ἦν, εἰ συνέζευξεν τῷ ἐθέλοιμεν τὸ περιέσται τοῦ τε γὰρ χωρίου τὸ δυσέμβατον ἡμέτερον νομίζω, ὃ μενόντων μὲν ἡμῶν σύμμαχον γίνεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 124)
  • καὶ γὰρ ταραχώδησ καὶ ἰλύοσ ἀνάμεστοσ καὶ δυσέμβατοσ καὶ τυραννικὸσ καὶ πολύηχοσ καὶ ὀλιγοχρόνιοσ. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. hard to walk on

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

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