μόχθος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, = Homeric [[μόγος]], [[toil]], [[hardship]], [[distress]], ἀμφὶ δ' ἀέθλῳ δῆριν ἔχειν καὶ μ. Hes.''Sc.''306; <b class="b3">μόχθων ἀμπνοά, ἀμοιβά</b>, Pi.''O.''8.7, ''N.''5.48: freq. in Trag., A.''Ch.''921, S.''Ph.''480, etc.: also in plural, [[toils]], [[troubles]], [[hardships]], A.''Pr.''541 (lyr.), etc.; of the [[labour]]s of [[Heracles]], S.''Tr.''1101, 1170; <b class="b3">μόχθος τέκνων</b> [[for]] them, E.''Med.''1261 (lyr.); <b class="b3">μόχθον ἀμφὶ πράγμασι</b> Epigr. ap. Aeschin.3.184; <b class="b3">Ἀπελλείου μ. γραφίδος</b>, of a [[picture]], ''APl.''4.178 (Antip. Sid.).—Rare in early Prose (not in Pl. or Oratt.), cf. μόχθος καὶ [[ταλαιπωρίη]] Democr.223; ἐλευθέριοι μόχθοι X.''Smp.''2.4; διὰ μόχθων Id.''Cyr.''1.6.25: freq. in [[LXX]], ''Ex.''18.8, al.; [[κόπος]] καὶ μόχθος ''1 Ep.Thess.''2.9; [[μόχθος]] implies [[hardship]], [[πόνος]] [[work]] (but [[μόχθος]] is said to be Cret. for [[πόνος]] ''AB''1096).