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φερέπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φερέπονος φερέπονον

Structure: φερεπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bringing toil and trouble

Examples

  • αἱ δύο δ’ ἀμπλακίαι φερέπονοι τελέθοντι· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 9:3)
  • ἦσαν δέ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, οὐ φερέπονοι ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ, οὐδὲ λογισμῷ ἢ ἐπιστήμῃ τινὶ ἀλλὰ θυμῷ χρώμενοι καθάπερ θηρία, διὸ καὶ ὑπὸ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων ἐπιστήμησ καὶ φερεπονίασ ἡσσῶντο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. bringing toil and trouble

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

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