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δυσνίκητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσνίκητος δυσνίκητον

Structure: δυσνικητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ni_ka/w

Sense

  1. hard to conquer

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ τοίνυν Πελοπίδασ μὲν οὐδεμίαν ἡττήθη μάχην στρατηγῶν, Μάρκελλοσ δὲ πλείστασ τῶν καθ’ αὑτὸν Ῥωμαίων ἐνίκησε, δόξειεν ἂν ἴσωσ τῷ δυσνικήτῳ πρὸσ τὸ ἀήττητον ὑπὸ πλήθουσ τῶν κατωρθωμένων ἐπανισοῦσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to conquer

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

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