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δύσπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύσπορος δύσπορον

Structure: δυσπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to pass, scarce passable

Examples

  • ἄλλωσ γὰρ δύσποροσ ἡ ὁδόσ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 25)
  • πᾶσ δὲ ποταμὸσ δύσποροσ, πᾶσ δὲ ὄχλοσ φοβερόσ, φοβερώτατον δ’ ἐρημία· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 10:4)
  • ἀναζευγνύοντι δ’ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναχωροῦντι ποταμὸσ ἦν ἐν μέσῳ δύσπορόσ τε καὶ ἰλυώδησ, καὶ παρ’ αὐτὸν ἐνήδρευον οἱ πολέμιοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. hard to pass

Related

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

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