Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύμοχθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύμοχθος πολύμοχθον

Structure: πολυμοχθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much-labouring, suffering many things
  2. won by much toil, wrought with much toil

Examples

  • ἦ δεινά τισ Ἔρισ θεόσ, ἃ τάδε μήσατο πήματα γᾶσ βασιλεῦσιν, Λαβδακίδαισ πολυμόχθοισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 14)

Synonyms

  1. much-labouring

  2. won by much toil

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

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