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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

  • δύσκριτον γὰρ ἐμοὶ γοῦν τοῦτο· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 11:5)
  • νὴ τὸν Δία τὸν σωτῆρα δυσκρίτωσ γ’ ἔχω· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 2:20)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ὁ μὲν μηδενὸσ τῶν ἀπὸ μαντικῆσ καταφρονῶν, ὁ δὲ πάντα ὑπερορῶν ὁμοίωσ ἀπώλοντο, χαλεπὴ μὲν ἐν τούτοισ ἡ ἀσφάλεια καὶ δύσκριτοσ, ἐπιεικέστερον δὲ τοῦ παρανόμου καὶ αὐθάδουσ τὸ μετὰ δόξησ παλαιᾶσ καὶ συνήθουσ δι’ εὐλάβειαν ἁμαρτανόμενον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Nicias and Crassus, chapter 5 2:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ δυσκρίτου τῆσ ὄψεωσ οὔσησ Ἀστύφιλοσ ὁ Ποσειδωνιάτησ, μαντικὸσ ἀνὴρ καὶ συνήθησ τῷ Κίμωνι, φράζει θάνατον αὐτῷ προσημαίνειν τὴν ὄψιν, οὕτω διαιρῶν· (Plutarch, , chapter 18 3:4)
  • καὶ ὁ Βροῦτοσ τότε μέν ὡσ ἔχοντόσ τι τοῦ λόγου χαλεπὸν καὶ δύσκριτον ἀπεσιώπησεν, ὕστερον δὲ Λαβεῶνι κοινοῦται τὸ βούλευμα. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 12 4:1)

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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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