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

  • δῆλον ὅτι τοὺσ τρόπουσ τισ οὐ μοχθηρὸσ ἦν, ἔπειτα πλουτῶν οὐκέθ’ ἥδεται φακῇ· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:1)
  • χλαῖναν γὰρ ἀπώλεσ’ ὁ μοχθηρὸσ Φρυγίων ἐρίων διὰ τοῦτον. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, epirrheme27)
  • μάλιστα τῶν αἰτιῶν τὸν θυμόν, ὅταν ἢ χρηστὸσ ὑποληφθεὶσ ἀναφανῇ μοχθηρὸσ ἢ φιλεῖν δόξασ ἐν διαφορᾷ τινι καὶ μέμψει γένηται. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 16 1:1)
  • αὕτη γὰρ αὔξει μάλιστα τῶν αἰτιῶν τὸν θυμόν, ὅταν ἢ χρηστὸσ ὑποληφθεὶσ ἀναφανῇ μοχθηρὸσ ἢ φιλεῖν δόξασ ἐν διαφορᾷ τινι καὶ μέμψει γένηται. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 162)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ τοξεύειν τῷ ἀρότρῳ βουλόμενοσ καὶ τῷ βοῒ τὸν λαγῶ κυνηγετεῖν δυστυχήσ ἐστιν οὐδὲ τῷ γρίφοισ καὶ σαγήναισ ἐλάφουσ μὴ λαμβάνοντι μηδὲ ὗσ δαίμων ἐναντιοῦται μοχθηρόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀβελτερίᾳ καὶ μωρίᾳ τοῖσ ἀδυνάτοισ ἐπιχειροῦσιν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 122)

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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