ἐπαχθές (epachthes)

ἐπαχθές is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαχθής, meaning “burdensome, oppressive”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 13.1: μετὰ δὲ τὴν μάχην Φάβιος μὲν ὅσους ἔκτεινε τῶν πολεμίων σκυλεύσας ἀνεχώρησεν, οὐδὲν ὑπερήφανον οὐδʼ ἐπαχθὲς εἰπὼν περὶ τοῦ συνάρχοντος· Μινούκιος δὲ τὴν αὑτοῦ στρατιὰν ἀθροίσας, ἄνδρες, ἔφη, συστρατιῶται, τὸ μ?ὲν ἁμαρ …

Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus 4.5: ὧν αἴτιον ἁπάντων τὸ ἀνομίλητον τοῦ τρόπου καὶ λίαν ὑπερήφανον καὶ αὔθαδες, ὃ καθʼ αὑτὸ μὲν ἐπαχθές ἐστι τοῖς πολλοῖς, τῷ δὲ φιλοτίμῳ προσὸν γίνεται παντάπασιν ἄγριον καὶ ἀπαραίτητον. οὐ γὰρ θεραπεύουσι τοὺς π …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 41·2: … ηρῶν καὶ ὀρφανῶν μάτην πρόνοιαν ποιῇ. τὸ μὲν γὰρ μανικὸν καὶ ἐπικίνδυνον, τὸ δὲ φιλοικτίρμονος καὶ συμπαθοῦς. Ἐπαχθὲς ἡμῖν λέγειν πρὸς βασιλέα, ἰδιώτας ὄντας, ἐπαχθέστερον δέ σοι φανήσεται τὸ λέγειν πρὸς Θεόν. οὐδεὶς γὰρ μεσίτη …

All forms of ἐπαχθής (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.