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δύσμαχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσμαχος δύσμαχον

Structure: δυσμαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xomai

Sense

  1. hard to fight with, unconquerable, difficult, to bear ill-will, against

Examples

  • δεινὸν τὸ πλῆθοσ σὺν δόλῳ τε δύσμαχον. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 6:17)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκποδὼν ἄπειμι κἀποστήσομαι θυμῷ ῥέοντι Θρῃκὶ δυσμαχωτάτῳ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:16)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα περὶ τῶν Καίσαροσ διαθηκῶν καὶ ταφῆσ αὐτοῦ λόγων ἐμπεσόντων, καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἀντώνιον ἀξιούντων τάσ τε διαθήκασ ἀναγνωσθῆναι καὶ τοῦ σώματοσ ἐκφορὰν γενέσθαι μὴ κεκρυμμένην μηδ’ ἄτιμον, ὡσ μὴ καὶ τοῦτο παροξύνῃ τὸν δῆμον, Κάσσιοσ μὲν ἰσχυρῶσ ἀντέλεγεν, εἶξε δὲ Βροῦτοσ καὶ συνεχώρησε, δεύτερον ἁμαρτεῖν τοῦτο δόξασ, καὶ γὰρ Ἀντωνίου φεισάμενοσ αἰτίαν ἔσχεν ἐπιτειχίσαι τῇ συνωμοσίᾳ βαρὺν καὶ δύσμαχον πολέμιον, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν ταφὴν ὃν ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ ἠξίου τρόπον ἐάσασ γενέσθαι τοῦ παντὸσ σφαλῆναι. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 20 1:1)
  • τοῖον παλαιστὴν νῦν παρασκευάζεται ἐπ’ αὐτὸσ αὑτῷ, δυσμαχώτατον τέρασ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode7)
  • δύσμαχα δ’ ἔστι κρῖναι. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 32)
  • ἦ ῥά γε καὶ σὲ Μυΐσκοσ ὁ δύσμαχοσ ὄμμασιν αἴθει; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1443)
  • " δεινῶσ τ’ ἦν ἐπιπληκτικὸσ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ζητήσεσι δύσμαχοσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef q'. KARNEADHS 2:5)

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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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