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δυσεργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσεργία

Structure: δυσεργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from du/sergos

Sense

  1. difficulty in acting

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ τόποσ καὶ πεδίον ἦν τῇ φάλαγγι βάσεωσ ἐπιπέδου καὶ χωρίων ὁμαλῶν δεομένῃ, καὶ λόφοι συνεχεῖσ ἄλλοσ ἐξ ἄλλου τοῖσ γυμνητεύουσι καὶ ψιλοῖσ ἀναφυγὰσ καὶ περιδρομὰσ ἔχοντεσ, διὰ μέσου δὲ ποταμοὶ ῥέοντεσ Αἴσων καὶ Λεῦκοσ οὐ μάλα βαθεῖσ τότε ̔θέρουσ γὰρ ἦν ὡρ́α φθίνοντοσ’ ἐδόκουν τινὰ δυσεργίαν ὅμωσ τοῖσ Ῥωμαίοισ παρέξειν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 16 5:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ ὁ Κάτων ἐπεφαίνετο διώκων αὐτοὺσ μετὰ πολλῆσ βοῆσ, καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸ στρατόπεδον ἐγίγνετο ἤδη τὸ Ἀντιόχου, ἔδεισαν οἱ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, περί τε τῆσ Ῥωμαίων μάχησ ἐπιφόβωσ ἐκ πολλοῦ πυνθανόμενοι, καὶ σφᾶσ εἰδότεσ ὑπὸ ἀργίασ καὶ τρυφῆσ δι’ ὅλου τοῦ χειμῶνοσ ἐσ δυσεργίαν διεφθαρμένουσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. difficulty in acting

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

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