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τα^λαιπωρ-ία , Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A.hard labour, Hp.Aër.21, Gal.15.620,741; also simply, regular use, exercise, “τῆς χειρός” Hp.Art.53.
2. hardship, distress, Th.4.117; τῇ τοῦ σώματος τ. And.2.17; ἡ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τ. Plb.3.17.8; ἡ περὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα τ. Phld.Oec.p.53 J.: pl., “ταλαιπωρίας ἐνδέκεσθαι” Hdt.6.11; τετρυμένοι . . ταλαιπωρίῃσί τε καὶ ἡλίῳ ib.12.
3. bodily suffering or pain, caused by disease, Th.2.49.
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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    • Andocides, On his Return, 17
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.11
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.117
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.17.8
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.49
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 53
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