backward
From LSJ
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
dull, slow: P. and V. σκαιός, νωθής, ἀμαθής, ἀφυής, P. βλακικός, see dull.
not eager: P. ἀπρόθυμος, ὀκνηρρός.
I am backward in the customs of the Greeks: V. λέλειμμαι τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησιν νόμων (Eur., Helen 1246).
