Δυσδιάφευκτον
hard to escape
Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo3 Apr 2005Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning something] escaping notice with difficulty.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δυσδιάφευκτον· δυσχερῶς λανθάνον.
Betacode
*dusdia/feukton: dusxerw=s lanqa/non.
Notes (1)
- Both the headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) and the glossing phrase are in the neuter nominative/accusative singular.
The entry = Synagoge delta395 (Lexica Segueriana 202.24) and Photius, Lexicon delta806.
We can consider this adjective, in both -feukt and -fukt forms (according to LSJ, and see web address 1 below), an exclusively Patristic and Byzantine term. It occurs indeed mostly in Cyril of Alexandria and it is first attested in John Chrysostom and in Eusebius, Commentary to Psalms 23.1229 (later quoted by Cyril, Expositio in Psalmos 69.1248).