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ταλαεργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταλαεργός ταλαεργόν

Structure: ταλαεργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Tla/w, ve/rgon

Sense

  1. enduring labour, drudging

Examples

  • μηνὸσ δ’ ὀγδοάτῃ κάπρον καὶ βοῦν ἐρίμυκον ταμνέμεν, οὐρῆασ δὲ δυωδεκάτῃ ταλαεργούσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 95:6)
  • τῇ δέ τε μῆλα καὶ εἰλίποδασ ἕλικασ βοῦσ καὶ κύνα καρχαρόδοντα καὶ οὐρῆασ ταλαεργοὺσ πρηύ̈νειν ἐπὶ χεῖρα τιθείσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 96:4)
  • ταῦτ’ ἔχε, Μαιάδοσ υἱέ, καὶ ἀγραύλουσ ἕλικασ βοῦσ ἵππουσ τ’ ἀμφιπόλευε καὶ ἡμιόνουσ ταλαεργούσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 57:9)

Related

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

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