Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυσπαλής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπαλής δυσπαλές

Structure: δυσπαλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pa/lh

Sense

  1. hard to wrestle with

Examples

  • καλεῖ δ’ ἀκούοντασ οὐδὲν <ἐν> μέσᾳ δυσπαλεῖ τε δίνᾳ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 41)

Synonyms

  1. hard to wrestle with

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

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