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δυσυπόστατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσυπόστατος δυσυπόστατον

Structure: δυσυποστατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hard to withstand

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ Μακεδόνεσ διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ τὸ βάροσ τῆσ φάλαγγοσ δυσυπόστατον εἶχον τὴν βίαν, οἱ δὲ Θηβαῖοι ταῖσ τῶν σωμάτων ῥώμαισ ὑπερέχοντεσ καὶ τοῖσ ἐν τοῖσ γυμνασίοισ συνεχέσιν ἀθλήμασιν, ἔτι δὲ τῷ παραστήματι τῆσ ψυχῆσ πλεονεκτοῦντεσ ἐνεκαρτέρουν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 7 39:2)

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

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