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δυ?́σεργ-ος , ον,
A.hard to work, “ὕλη” Thphr.HP 5.1.1; “λίθοι” Paus.3.21.4; unfit to be worked, “σίδηρος” Plu.Lyc.9; hard to manage, “ὁπλισμός” Id.Flam.8; “δ. χρῆσθαι” Id.Tim.28; πόλις - οτέρα harder to besiege, Id.Nic.17.
2. hard to effect, difficult, Plb.28.8.3, Ph.1.272 (Sup.); “πόλεμος” App.Hisp.63 (Sup.); τὸ παραφυλάττειν τὰς ἐξόδους - ότερον J.BJ5.12.1. Adv. -γως“, κινηθῆναι” Plu.Demetr. 43.
II. Act., incapable of work, useless, “πρός τι” App.Syr.16; χεῖμα δ., hiems ignava, Bion Fr.15.5; idle, “νωθρὸς καὶ δ.” Plu.Alex.33.
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 (10):
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.12.1
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.21.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 28.8.3
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 33
    • Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, 8
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 9
    • Plutarch, Timoleon, 28
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 17
    • Plutarch, Demetrius, 43
    • Bion of Phlossa, Fragmenta, 15.5
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