ταλαίπωρον (talaiporon)

ταλαίπωρον is an Ancient Greek form of ταλαίπωρος, meaning “suffering, wretched”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.27: … ίας ἄνθρωπε δικαίως, ὡς εὐδαίμων παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησι διάξεις. εἶ γὰρ μνήμων καὶ φροντιστής, καὶ τὸ ταλαίπωρον ἔνεστιν ἐν τῇ γνώμῃ, κοὔτε τι κάμνεις οὔθʼ ἑστὼς οὔτε βαδίζων, οὔτε ῥιγῶν ἄχθει λίαν, οὔτʼ ἀρίστων ἐπιθυμεῖς, …

Euripides, Suppliants 1094: εἶἑν· τί δὴ χρὴ τὸν ταλαίπωρόν με δρᾶν;

All forms of ταλαίπωρος (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.