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δυσπάλαμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπάλαμος δυσπάλαμον

Structure: δυσπαλαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pala/mh

Sense

  1. hard to conquer

Examples

  • ἀπὸ γάρ με τι‐ μᾶν δαναιᾶν θεῶν δυσπάλαμοι παρ’ οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 26)
  • ἀπὸ γάρ με τι‐ μᾶν δαναιᾶν θεῶν δυσπάλαμοι παρ’ οὐδὲν ἦραν δόλοι. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 26)

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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