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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

  • καὶ ὁ μὲν ὧν ἄρχων ἐξῆλθεν, ὑπὸ τούτων ἀπολειφθεὶσ ἐπανῆλθεν, ὁ δὲ μεθ’ ὧν ἑτέροισ ποιήσων τὸ προσταττόμενον ἐξεπέμφθη, τούτοισ αὐτὸσ διδοὺσ τὸ παράγγελμα κατέπλευσε, τρία τὰ πάντων δυσκολώτατα διαπεπραγμένοσ ὁμοῦ τῇ πόλει, πρὸσ μὲν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ εἰρήνην, παρὰ δὲ τῶν συμμάχων ἡγεμονίαν, πρὸσ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ὁμόνοιαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 2 3:3)

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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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