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===substantive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἄχθος]], τό, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[βάρος]], τό, [[verse|V.]] [[βρῖθος]], τό, [[φόρημα]], τό, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[φορτίον]], τό.

[[burden carried in the arms]]: [[verse|V.]] [[βάσταγμα]], τό.

Used of a [[person]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἄχθος]], τό, [[verse|V.]] [[βάρος]], τό, [[ἐφολκίς]], ἡ.

Met., of anything that gives [[trouble]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[φορτίον]], τό, [[verse|V.]] [[ἄχθος]], τό, [[βάρος]], τό, [[φόρτος]]. ὁ.

[[hindrance]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἐμπόδισμα]], τό.

[[the burden of sickness]]: [[verse|V.]] [[τοὐπίσαγμα τοῦ νοσήματος]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Philebus]]'' 755).

[[freight]] (of a [[ship]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[γόμος]], ὁ; see [[freight]].

[[a ship of six hundred talents burden]]: [[prose|P.]] [[πλοῖον εἰς πεντακόσια τάλαντα ἄγον μέτρα]] ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 4, 118).

the clerk of the city came forward and read the Athenians (the letter), the burden of which was as follows: [[prose|P.]] ὁ γραμματεὺς τῆς πόλεως παρελθὼν ἀνέγνω, τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις (τὴν ἐπιστολὴν) δηλοῦσαν τοιάδε ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 7, 10).

[[beast of burden]]: see under [[beast]].

===verb transitive===

[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[βαρύνειν]].

[[load]] (a [[ship]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[γεμίζειν]].

Met.: see [[distress]].

[[burdened with]]: [[verse|V.]] [[σεσαγμένος]]; (gen.).
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