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δυσόμιλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσόμιλος δυσόμιλον

Structure: δυσομιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to live with, bringing evil in one's company

Examples

  • καὶ μάλιστα δὴ τὸ δυσόμιλον αὐτοῦ καὶ δυσπρόσοδον. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 42 1:2)
  • παρακλίνασ’ ἐπέκρανεν δὲ γάμου πικρὰσ τελευτάσ, δύσεδροσ καὶ δυσόμιλοσ συμένα Πριαμίδαισιν, πομπᾷ Διὸσ ξενίου, νυμφόκλαυτοσ Ἐρινύσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 3 1:2)

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

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