χαλεπάς (chalepas)

χαλεπάς is an Ancient Greek form of χαλεπός, meaning “hard, difficult, harsh”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.39: εἶσιν ἀτυζομένη χαλεπὰς ὑπὸ χεῖρας ἀνάσσης·

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.95: εἰ δʼ ἄγε Θεστυλί μοι χαλεπᾶς νόσω εὑρέ τι μῆχος.

Xenophon, On Hunting 12.2: πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ τὰ ὅπλα ὅταν ἔχοντες πορεύωνται ὁδοὺς χαλεπάς, οὐκ ἀπεροῦσιν· ἀνέξονται γὰρ τοὺς πόνους διὰ τὸ εἰθίσθαι μετὰ τούτων αἱρεῖν τὰ θηρία. ἔπειτα εὐνάζεσθαί τε σκληρῶς δυνατοὶ ἔσονται καὶ φύλακες εἶναι ἀγαθοὶ τοῦ ἐπιταττομένου.

All forms of χαλεπός (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.