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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

  • ὁ δὲ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων βασιλεὺσ Νεκτάνεβισ ἐπυνθάνετο μὲν τὸ μέγεθοσ τῶν Περσικῶν δυνάμεων, ἐθάρρει δὲ μάλιστα μὲν τῇ τῆσ χώρασ ὀχυρότητι, δυσπροσίτου παντελῶσ οὔσησ τῆσ Αἰγύπτου, ἔπειτα καὶ τῷ πεφράχθαι καλῶσ πάσασ εἰσβολὰσ τάσ τε ἀπὸ γῆσ καὶ τὰσ ἀπὸ θαλάττησ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 42 2:1)

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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