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δυσκόλων (dyskolon)

δυσκόλων is an Ancient Greek form of δύσκολος, meaning “hard to please, difficult”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De cohibenda ira 15: … οἴνου καὶ σπαράγματα στεφάνων καὶ κραιπαλῶντας ὁρῶμεν ἐπὶ θύραις ἀκολούθους· τὰ δὲ τῶν πικρῶν ἐκκαλύμματα καὶ δυσκόλων ἐν τοῖς προσώποις τῶν οἰκετῶν ὄψει καὶ τοῖς στίγμασι καὶ ταῖς πέδαις· ἀεὶ δʼ ἀοιδῶν μοῦνος ἐν στέγαις ὀργίλου …

All forms of δύσκολος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.