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μόχθημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόχθημα μόχθηματος

Structure: μοχθηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from moxqe/w

Sense

  1. toils, hardships

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μὴ δῷσ τάδ’ ὀστᾶ τοῖσδ’ ἐσ Ἀργείαν χθόνα παισὶν κομίζειν ῥᾳδίωσ οὕτω μεθείσ, ἀλλ’ ἀντὶ τῶν σῶν καὶ πόλεωσ μοχθημάτων πρῶτον λάβ’ ὁρ́κον. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode13)
  • κἄζευξα πρῶτοσ ἐν ζυγοῖσι κνώδαλα ζεύγλαισι δουλεύοντα σάγμασὶν θ’, ὅπωσ θνητοῖσ μεγίστων διάδοχοι μοχθημάτων γένοινθ’ , ὑφ’ ἁρ́μα τ’ ἤγαγον φιληνίουσ ἵππουσ, ἄγαλμα τῆσ ὑπερπλούτου χλιδῆσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἓν γὰρ μόνον τὰ πάντα λύει ταῦτ’ ἔποσ μοχθήματα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode20)

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

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