Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μοχθηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοχθηρός μοχθηρή μοχθηρόν

Structure: μοχθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: voc. mo/xqhre, not moxqhre/

Sense

  1. suffering hardship, in sore distress, miserable, wretched, hardships
  2. in a bad state, in sorry plight, worthless, a, plight
  3. wicked, knavish, rascally

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ εἰ μὴ γιγνώσκοιμεν, καθότι μοχθηραὶ καὶ ὅπῃ τῆσ δεούσησ ἐξίστανται, πῶσ ἂν αὐτὰσ ἐπανάγειν οἱοῖ́ τ’ εἰήμεν ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον; (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 843)
  • διὰ τί οὖν αἱ ἐναντίαι λῦπαι μοχθηραί; (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 160:1)
  • ταῖσ δὲ γυναιξὶ ταῖσ γαμεταῖσ μὴ συμφιλοσοφεῖν τοὺσ Βραχμᾶνασ, εἰ μὲν μοχθηραὶ γένοιντο, ἵνα μή τι τῶν οὐ θεμιτῶν ἐκφέροιεν εἰσ τοὺσ βεβήλουσ εἰ δὲ σπουδαῖαι, μὴ καταλείποιεν αὐτούσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 118:12)

Synonyms

  1. suffering hardship

Related

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

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