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δύσκολος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκολος δύσκολον

Structure: δυσκολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: opp. to eu)/kolos

Sense

  1. hard to satisfy with food;, hard to please, discontented, fretful, peevish, to be peevish
  2. troublesome, harassing, unpleasant, difficult, hardly, with difficulty

Examples

  • καίτοι δύσκολοσ ἔφυσ ἀνήρ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees16)
  • οὐκ αὖ σὺ παύσει χαλεπὸσ ὢν καὶ δύσκολοσ, καὶ ταῦτα τοῖσ φεύγουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὀδὰξ ἔχει; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:38)
  • ὁ δὲ παρὰ Μνησιμάχῳ ἐν τῷ ὁμωνύμῳ δράματι Δύσκολοσ φιλάργυροσ ὢν σφόδρα πρὸσ τὸν ἀσωτευόμενον νεανίσκον φησίν ἀλλ’ ἀντιβολῶ σ1’, ἐπίταττέ μοι μὴ πόλλ’ ἄγαν, μηδ’ ἄγρια λίαν μηδ’ ἐπηργυρωμένα, μέτρια δέ, τῷ θείῳ σεαυτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 58 2:1)
  • κόλον γὰρ ἡ τροφή, ὅθεν καὶ ὁ βουκόλοσ καὶ ὁ δύσκολοσ, ὅσ ἐστι δυσάρεστοσ καὶ σικχόσ, κοιλία τε ἡ τὴν τροφὴν δεχομένη, ψωμοκόλαφον δ’ εἴρηκε Δίφιλοσ ἐν Θησεῖ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 80 1:6)
  • ὁ δὲ τοὺσ ἀπὸ Κίμωνοσ ἡδέωσ ὁρῶν Ἀθήνησι τιμωμένουσ, τῶν δὲ Λαχάρουσ ἢ Ἀρίστωνοσ ἐκγόνων ἐλαυνομένων ἀχθόμενοσ καὶ ἀγανακτῶν, ὑγρόσ ἐστι λίαν καὶ ῥᾴθυμοσ μᾶλλον δὲ φιλαίτιοσ ὅλωσ καὶ δύσκολοσ πρὸσ τὸ θεῖον· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 13 5:3)

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

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