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χαλεπῆς (chalepes)

χαλεπῆς is an Ancient Greek form of χαλεπός, meaning “hard, difficult, harsh”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.35: … ατα αὐτῷ παρέχοντος ἔφη· ἀκόλασθʼ ὁμιλεῖν γίγνεται δούλων τέκνα. ἄλλου δὲ πολλὰ φλυαροῦντος οὐδὲ τίτθης αὐτὸν χαλεπῆς τετυχηκέναι ἔφη· τισὶ δὲ οὐδὲ ἀπεκρίνετο. πρὸς δὲ τὸν δανειστικὸν καὶ φιλόλογον εἰπόντα τι ἀγνοεῖν, ἔφη· λήθο …

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.