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 πολύμοχθον ἄρ’ ἦν γένοσ, ἦ πολύμοχθον ἁμερίων, <τὸ> χρεὼν δέ τι δύσποτμον ἀνδράσιν ἀνευρεῖν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, lyric 1:4)
  • ζῳογράφων ὦ λῷστε, σὺ μὲν σοφόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀναπαῦσαι ἄνδρα πόνων ἤδη τὸν πολύμοχθον ἔδει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 111 1:1)
  • εἰσ Καρτέριον ἑταῖρον τοῦ μεγάλου Γρηγορίου πῆ με λιπὼν πολύμοχθον ἐπὶ χθονί, φίλταθ’ ἑταίρων, ἤλυθεσ ἁρπαλέωσ, κύδιμε Καρτέριε; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1421)

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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