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δύσ-κολος , ον, (κόλον):
I. of persons, prop. hard to satisfy with food (cf. Ath.6.262a): but, generally, hard to please, discontented, fretful, peevish, Ar.V.942; “γῆρας” E.Ba.1251; “δ. ψυχὴ καὶ ἀγρία” Pl.Lg.649e, cf. Arist.EN1108a30, etc.; “τὸ δ.” Pl.Lg.791c; of animals, intractable, Id.Tht.174d (Comp.): so in Adv. δυσκόλως, ἔχειν, διακεῖσθαι πρός τινα, D.19.132, Isoc.3.33; “δυσκολώτερον διακεῖσθαι” Pl. Phd.84e.
II. of things, troublesome, harassing, “δ. ἡ ἡνιόχησις” Id.Phdr.246b; “πυρετοί” Hp.Coac.38: generally, unpleasant, “ἄν τι δ. συμβῇ” D.18.189, cf. Men.89; “εἴ τι δ. πέπρακται Θηβαίοις πρὸς ἡμᾶς” D. 18.176; καιροὶ δ. difficult times, IG22.682.33. Adv. -λως“, ὑπακούειν” Hp.Epid.3.8.
2. difficult to explain, Arist.SE180b5, Metaph.1001b1; δ. ἐστι it is difficult, Ev.Marc.10.24, cf. Onos.1.15 (Comp.); “τὰ μὲν ῥάδια . . τὰ δὲ δ.” Phld.Po.994.24. Adv. -λως hardly, with difficulty, Ev.Marc.10.23,al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 942
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1108a.30
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 132
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 176
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 189
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1251
    • Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 33
    • Plato, Laws, 649e
    • Plato, Laws, 791c
    • Plato, Phaedo, 84e
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 174d
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 246b
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 1.15
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