reluctance

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

hesitation: P. and V. ὄκνος, ὁ.

reluctance to take the field: P. ἀπόκνησις τῶν στρατειῶν.

unwillingness to grant a thing: P. and V. φθόνος, ὁ.

from base reluctance to benefit any men: V. φειδοῖ πονηρᾷ μηδέν' εὖ ποιεῖν βροτῶν (Euripides, Fragment).