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ἐπίπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπονος ἐπίπονον

Structure: ἐπιπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. painful, toilsome, laborious, a hard task
  2. laborious, patient of toil
  3. portending distress

Examples

  • μαλακία γὰρ τὸ φεύγειν τὰ ἐπίπονα, καὶ οὐχ ὅτι καλὸν ὑπομένει, ἀλλὰ φεύγων κακόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 105:3)
  • τῶν πολιτῶν ὁπόσοι τέλοσ ἔχοιεν τοῦ βίου, κατὰ σώματα ἢ κατὰ ψυχὰσ ἔργα ἐξειργασμένοι καλὰ καὶ ἐπίπονα καὶ τοῖσ νόμοισ εὐπειθεῖσ γεγονότεσ, ἐγκωμίων αὐτοὺσ τυγχάνειν πρέπον ἂν εἰή. (Plato, Laws, book 7 85:4)

Synonyms

  1. painful

Related

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

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