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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

  • ὅμωσ δὲ διὰ τὸ πιστεύειν τοῖσ πράγμασι, πολλῶν μοι καὶ δυσκόλων συμπιπτόντων οὐχ ἡγούμην δεῖν κατοκνῆσαι δι’ ὑμῶν πειρᾶσθαι τυγχάνειν τῶν δικαίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 2:7)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἀηδὴσ ἀπέχθεια καὶ αἱ κοιναὶ συνουσίαι τεχνικώτερον σύγκεινται μᾶλλον ἤ ἀφελέστερον, καὶ ἔτι τὸ πολλῶν μοι καὶ δυσκόλων συμπιπτόντων οὐχ ἡγούμην δεῖν κατοκνῆσαι δι’ ὑμῶν πειρᾶσθαι τυγχάνειν τῶν δικαίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 11 2:2)
  • τοσούτων γέ μοι συμπιπτόντων δυσκόλων ἐφ’ ὑμᾶσ ἠνάγκασμαι καταφυγεῖν, ἵνα τῶν δικαίων τύχω δι’ ὑμῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 11 2:5)
  • καὶ τὸ περὶ τὸ περὶ ψυχῆσ δὲ θεῖν ἀφαιρεῖται τὴν αἴσθησιν τῶν δυσκόλων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 17 4:2)
  • τὰ δὲ τῶν πικρῶν ἐκκαλύμματα καὶ δυσκόλων ἐν τοῖσ προσώποισ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὄψει καὶ τοῖσ στίγμασι καὶ ταῖσ πέδαισ· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 15 1:4)

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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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