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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

  • τυῖδε γὰρ πλόον εὐάνεμον αἰτήμεθα πὰρ Δίοσ, ὅπωσ ξέννον ἔμον τέρψομ’ ἴδων κἀντιφιλήσομεν, Νικίαν, Χαρίτων ἰμεροφώνων ἰέρον φύτον, καὶ σὲ τὰν ἐλέφαντοσ πολυμόχθω γεγενημέναν δῶρον Νικιάασ εἰσ ὀλόχω χέρρασ ὀπάσσομεν, σὺν τᾷ πόλλα μὲν ἔργ’ ἐκτελέσεισ ἀνδρεϊοίσ πέπλοισ, πόλλα δ’ οἱᾶ γύναικεσ φορέοισ’ ὐδάτινα βράκη. (Theocritus, Idylls, 2)

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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