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δυστράπελος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυστράπελος δυστράπελον

Structure: δυστραπελ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. hard to deal with, intractable, stubborn, awkwardly

Examples

  • καὶ πρᾶγμά γ’ ἠρώτα με δυστράπελον πάνυ, ἔχον δὲ πολλὰσ φροντίδων διεξόδουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 744)
  • "ἀλλ’ ἀφείσ, ὦ μακάριε, τὸν δυστράπελον Αἰάντα καὶ δυσώνυμον, ὥσ φησι Σοφοκλῆσ, γενοῦ μετὰ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ, ὃν αὐτὸσ εἰώθασ ἱστορεῖν ἡμῖν ἡττώμενον πολλάκισ, ἐνταῦθα μὲν ὑπ’ Ἀθηνᾶσ ἐν Δελφοῖσ δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐν Ἄργει δ’ ὑπὸ τῆσ Ἥρασ ἐν Αἰγίνῃ δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ Διὸσ ἐν Νάξῳ δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ Διονύσου, πρᾶον δὲ πανταχοῦ καὶ ἀμήνιτον ὄντα περὶ τὰσ δυσημερίασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 2:2)

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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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