hard to bear, insufferable
Ancient Greek word, found 11 times in the texts on Socratos.
Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine 6·2: … ίην ἢ μετὰ πολλῶν παθῶν εἰσιοῦσαν, ὧν τὸ μὲν συναγωνιᾶν καὶ συνάχθεσθαι καὶ συμπονεῖν καὶ συγκινδυνεύειν πάνυ δύσοιστον τοῖς ἐλευθέροις καὶ γενναίοις ἐστί· τὸ δὲ τοῦ σοφοῦ Χίλωνος ἀληθές, ὃς πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα μηδένα ἔχειν ἐχθρὸν ἔ …
Sophocles, Philoctetes 507: οἴκτιρʼ, ἄναξ· πολλῶν ἔλεξεν δυσοίστων πόνων
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 690: οὐδʼ ὧδε δυσθέατα καὶ δύσοιστα