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|mdlsjtxt=<br />without [[passage]], and so:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of places, [[impassable]], [[pathless]], [[trackless]], Xen., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of circumstances, [[hard]] to see one's way [[through]], [[impracticable]], [[very]] [[difficult]], Hdt., [[attic]]: ἄπορα, τά, straits, difficulties, Hdt., Xen.; so, εἰς ἄπορον ἥκειν, πίπτειν Eur., Ar.; ἐν ἀπόρωι [[εἶναι]] at a [[loss]], Thuc.:—comp., ἀπορώτερος [[more]] [[difficult]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[hard]] to get, [[scarce]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> of persons, [[hard]] to [[deal]] with, [[impracticable]], [[unmanageable]], Hdt., Plat.: c. inf., ἄπ. προσμίσγειν, προσφέρεσθαι [[impossible]] to [[have]] any [[dealings]] with, Hdt.: so, absol., [[ἄνεμος]] ἄπ. Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> without [[means]] or [[resources]], at a [[loss]], [[helpless]], Soph., etc.; [[ἄπορος]] ἐπὶ φρόνιμα, ἐπ' [[οὐδέν]] Soph.; of soldiers, οἱ ἀπορώτατοι the [[most]] [[helpless]], [[worst]] equipt, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[poor]], [[needy]], Lat. [[inops]], Thuc., Plat.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> adv. 3 a)po/rws, a)p. e)/xei moi I am at a [[loss]], Eur.: comp. -ώτερον, Thuc.

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