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δυσπρόσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπρόσιτος δυσπρόσιτον

Structure: δυσπροσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. difficult of access

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ Καρχηδόνιοι κατεστρατοπεδευκότεσ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπερδεξίων καὶ δυσπροσίτων διακινδυνεύειν μὲν πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἀπογινώσκοντασ τὴν σωτηρίαν οὐκ ἔκρινον, μένοντεσ δ’ ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ καὶ πάντων εὐποροῦντεσ τῇ σπάνει καὶ τῷ χρόνῳ καταπολεμήσειν τοὺσ ἐναντίουσ ἤλπιζον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 64 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. difficult of access

Related

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

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