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δύστροπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύστροπος δύστροπον

Structure: δυστροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tre/pw

Sense

  1. hard to turn, intractable

Examples

  • τοὺσ ὅτ’ ἐγὼ γεγονυίασ ἤδη τῆσ εἰρήνησ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὑστέρασ ἥκων πρεσβείασ τῆσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ, αἰσθόμενοσ φενακιζομένην τὴν πόλιν, προὔλεγον καὶ διεμαρτυρόμην καὶ οὐκ εἰών προέσθαι Πύλασ οὐδὲ Φωκέασ, λέγοντασ ὡσ ἐγὼ μὲν ὕδωρ πίνων εἰκότωσ δύστροποσ καὶ δύσκολόσ εἰμί τισ ἄνθρωποσ, Φίλιπποσ δ’, ἅπερ εὔξαισθ’ ἂν ὑμεῖσ, ἂν παρέλθῃ, πράξει, καὶ Θεσπιὰσ μὲν καὶ Πλαταιὰσ τειχιεῖ, Θηβαίουσ δὲ παύσει τῆσ ὕβρεωσ, Χερρόνησον δὲ τοῖσ αὑτοῦ τέλεσιν διορύξει, Εὔβοιαν δὲ καὶ τὸν Ὠρωπὸν ἀντ’ Ἀμφιπόλεωσ ὑμῖν ἀποδώσει· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 37:5)

Synonyms

  1. hard to turn

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

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