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δύσκριτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσκριτος δύσκριτον

Structure: δυσκριτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to discern or interpret, doubtfully, darkly, in doubt

Examples

  • νὴ τὸν Δία τὸν σωτῆρα δυσκρίτωσ γ’ ἔχω· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 2:20)
  • ἧκον δ’ ἀναγγέλλοντεσ αἰολοστόμουσ χρησμοὺσ ἀσήμουσ δυσκρίτωσ τ’ εἰρημένουσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:3)

Related

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

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