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δυσπόριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπόριστος δυσπόριστον

Structure: δυσποριστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pori/zw

Sense

  1. gotten with much labour, difficulty of getting

Examples

  • ἄρτου δεομένουσ καὶ οἴκου καὶ σκέπησ μετρίασ καὶ τοῦ τυχόντοσ ὄψου παραλαβὼν ἐμπέπληκεν ἐπιθυμίασ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου καὶ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ σμαράγδων καὶ κυνῶν καὶ ἵππων, εἰσ χαλεπὰ καὶ σπάνια καὶ δυσπόριστα καὶ ἄχρηστα μεταθεὶσ ἐκ τῶν ἀναγκαίων τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 2 3:1)

Related

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

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