A.painful, troublous, “ἄνεμοι” Il.13.795; “Ἔρις” 11.3; “νοῦσος” 13.667; Ἄσκρῃ, χεῖμα κακῇ, θέρει ἀργαλέῃ (trisyll.), “οὐδέποτ᾽ ἐσθλῇ” Hes.Op.640; “νύξ” Alc.Supp.12.11; difficult of attainment, “ἀληθείη” Emp.114.2; “κάθοδος” Anacr.43.5:—never in Trag., sts. in Com., “ἀ. πρᾶγμα” Ar.Pl.1; “στάσις” Id.Th.788; “ἀργαλέας νύκτας ἄγειν” Id.Lys. 764: rare in Prose, “πρᾶγμα” X.Hier.6.4: Comp., Ph.1.224: Sup., Id.2.300.
2. of persons, troublesome, vexatious, Thgn.1208 codd. (ἁρπ- Bgk.); “βιότοιο κέλευθοι” Emp.115.8, cf. Ar.Nu.450, Men.403.5: Sup., Ar.Eq.978: rare in Prose, “ἀ. τὴν ὄψιν” Aeschin.1.61.
II. ἀργαλέον ἐστί, c. dat. et inf., “ἀ. δέ μοί ἐστι διασκοπιᾶσθαι ἕκαστον” Il.17.252, cf. 12.410, Od.13.312, etc.: rarely c. acc. et inf., “ἀργαλέον δέ με πάντ᾽ ἀγορεῦσαι” Il.12.176; or without case, “ἀ. δὲ πληκτίζεσθ᾽ ἀλόχοισι Διός” 21.498, cf. Od.7.241, etc.; also,
