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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

  • ἐν δὲ Πρωτοχόρῳ, ἐπιπονώτερον ἔργον μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον οὐκ εἴληφ’ ἐγὼ ἀφ’ οὗ παρασιτῶ, ὁ μεμβράδασ μοι κρεῖττον ἦν ἔχειν μετ’ Ἀττικιστὶ δυναμένου λαλεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 28 3:1)
  • ἀλλὰ νὴ τὸν ἥλιον, κἀμοὶ τράχηλον ἕτερον εἴ ποθεν λαβεῖν ἦν καὶ πρίασθαι δυνατόν, ὃν ἔχω τοῦτον ἂν πρὶν εἰσενεγκεῖν ταῦτα δεῦρ’ ἀπηγξάμην οὐδεὶσ δεδιακόνηκεν ἐπιπονώτερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 42 3:5)
  • "ἡ δ’ ἐν ὡρισμένῳ πλήθει καὶ ἀριθμῷ κόσμων ἐπιμέλεια καὶ πρόνοια τῆσ εἰσ ἓν δεδυκυίασ σῶμα καὶ προσηρτημένησ ἑνὶ καὶ τοῦτο μετασχηματιζούσησ καὶ ἀναπλαττούσησ ἀπειράκισ ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ μηδὲν ἔχειν ἀσεμνότερον μηδ’ ἐπιπονώτερον. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 306)
  • Τῶν ἀπὸ καρδίησ οἱ ἀπὸ ἥπατοσ οὐκ ὠκύτερον μὲν, ἐπιπονώτερον δὲ θνήσκουσι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 147)
  • ̓τω πανταχῇ ἐπιπονώτερον ψυχὴ καὶ ταλαιπωρότερον σώματοσ, ὅμωσ δὲ θειότερον καὶ βασιλικώτερον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 76:7)

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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