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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

  • ὁ δεσπότησ γάρ φησιν ὑμᾶσ ἡδέωσ ἅπαντασ ψυχροῦ βίου καὶ δυσκόλου ζήσειν ἀπαλλαγέντασ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos6)
  • καὶ μαγείρων μὲν ἅλισ, ἄνδρεσ δαιταλεῖσ, μὴ καὶ τισ αὐτῶν τὰ ἐκ Δυσκόλου Μενάνδρου βρενθυόμενοσ λαρυγγίσῃ τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 311)
  • Κάτωνι δὲ πολλάκισ τὰ μέλλοντα προθεσπίζοντι περιῆν δυσκόλου μὲν ἀνθρώπου τότε καὶ πολυπράγμονοσ, ὕστερον δὲ φρονίμου μέν, οὐκ εὐτυχοῦσ δὲ συμβούλου λαβεῖν δόξαν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 13 3:2)
  • δυσκόλου δ’ ὄντοσ φύσει καὶ χαλεποῦ τοῦ βουλεύεσθαι, ἔτι πολλῷ χαλεπώτερον ὑμεῖσ αὐτὸ πεποιήκατ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 3:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι δυσκόλου γενέσθαι, μᾶλλον δ’ ἀδυνάτου πράγματοσ πονηρὸν ἔρωτα ἔχεισ, πόλεωσ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων καθελεῖν τὴν ἰσχὺν καὶ ταῦτα τοῖσ Οὐολούσκων ὅπλοισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 26 1:2)

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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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