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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

  • οὐδεὶσ γάρ ὀδύρεται μυούμενοσ οὐδὲ θρηνεῖ Πύθια θεώμενοσ ἢ πίνων ἐν Κρονίοισ ἃσ δ’ ὁ θεὸσ ἡμῖν ἑορτὰσ χορηγεῖ καὶ μυσταγωγεῖ καταισχύνουσιν, ἐν ὀδυρμοῖσ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ βαρυθυμίαισ καὶ μερίμναισ ἐπιπόνοισ διατρίβοντεσ. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 20 1:4)
  • ἃσ δ’ ὁ θεὸσ ἡμῖν ἑορτὰσ χορηγεῖ καὶ μυσταγωγεῖ καταισχύνουσιν, ἐν ὀδυρμοῖσ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ βαρυθυμίαισ καὶ μερίμναισ ἐπιπόνοισ διατρίβοντεσ. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 20 5:2)
  • τοὐναντίον ἐν μὲν ταῖσ ἐπιπόνοισ καὶ κινδυνώδεσιν ὑπουργίαισ ἀπαγορεύει, κἂν διαπειρώμενοσ κρούσῃσ, σαθρὸν ἔκ τινοσ προφάσεωσ ὑπηχεῖ καὶ ἀγεννέσ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 23 7:1)

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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