μόχθος: Difference between revisions

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