Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δυστέκμαρτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυστέκμαρτος δυστέκμαρτον

Structure: δυστεκμαρτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tekmai/romai

Sense

  1. hard to make out from the given signs, hard to trace, inexplicable

Examples

  • ὥσπερ ἀναμενούσησ τῆσ τύχησ τὰσ ἀνθρωπίνασ μελλήσεισ, ἢ τῆσ φύσεωσ ἡμῶν τὰσ καθ’ ἡλικίαν ἑκάστῳ τελευτὰσ φερούσησ, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐν ἀδήλῳ καὶ δυστεκμάρτῳ τέλει πάντων τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων κειμένων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 29 8:2)

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

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