Δύσεργον

hard to manage

Translated by Stefano Sanfilippo4 Mar 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

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[Meaning something] difficult, troublesome.¹.
"With the spear being taken equally in both hands, which was of course hard to manage for those with one hand weaker [sc. than the other]".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δύσεργον· δυσχερές, δύσκολον. ἐπ' ἄμφω τὰ πλευρὰ τοῦ δόρατος μεταλαμβανομένου, ὃ δὴ δύσεργον ἦν τοῖς ἀρρωστοτέραν ἔχουσι τὴν ἑτέραν.

Δύσεργον · hard to manage (δ 1619) · Suda

*du/sergon: dusxere/s, du/skolon. e)p' a)/mfw ta\ pleura\ tou= do/ratos metalambanome/nou, o(\ dh\ du/sergon h)=n toi=s a)rrwstote/ran e)/xousi th\n e(te/ran.

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