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μόχθ-ος

mochthos

exertion, difficulty, distress, misery

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Where it lives

Ecclesiastes 22 · 48.63/10k
Prometheus Bound 8 · 13.61/10k
2 Thessalonians 1 · 12.39/10k
Libation Bearers 4 · 7.44/10k
1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
Bacchae 5 · 6.65/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 5 · 6.03/10k
Electra 4 · 5.29/10k
Helen 5 · 5.11/10k
Ion 4 · 4.37/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. μόχθος · mochthos — Beekes

μόχθος [m.] ‘exertion, difficulty, distress, misery’ (Hes. Sc. Pi, trag., mostly poet.). *COMP Often as a second member, e.g. πολύ-μοχθος “of much labour’ (trag,, Arist.), also as a technical expression (in construction) in πρόμοχθοι: τὰ προβεβλημένα τῶν τοίχων ‘the projecting parts of the walls’ (H., also Delos II*). _ *DER 1. μοχθ-ηρός ‘laborious, miserable, worthless, bad’ with μοχθηρ-ία bad condition’ (IA), … — [Beekes, s.v. μόχθος, p. 1024]

2. μόχθος · mochthos — Chantraine

μόχθος : m. « peine, effort, difficuité » (Hés. Bouclier 306, Pi., trag., Démocr., X., LXX, ignoré de PL et des orateurs). Au second terme de composé : &-uoy@oc (Pi, etc.), ἐμπεδό- (E., Nic), ἐπί- (B., etc.), πολύ- (trag., Arist., etc.), etc.; en outre πρόμοχθοι, substantif du vocabulaire de l'architecture «contreforts», glosé par Hsch. τὰ προθεδλημένα τῶν τοίχων, cf. SIG 977 a, Délos, 118 85. av. Adjectifs dérivés … — [Chantraine, s.v. μόχθος, p. 733]

3. μόχθ-ος · mochth-os — LSJ

toil, hardship, distress, toils, troubles, hardships, labours, for, hardship, work

toil, hardship, distress, ἀμφὶ δʼ ἀέθλῳ δῆριν ἔχειν καὶ μ. Hes. Sc. 306; μόχθων ἀμπνοά, ἀμοιβά, Pi. O. 8.7, N. 5.48: freq. in Trag., A. Ch. 921, S. Ph. 480, etc.: also in pl., toils, troubles, hardships, A. Pr. 541 (lyr.), etc.; of the labours of Heracles, S. Tr. 1101, 1170; μ. τέκνων for them, E. Med. 1261 (lyr.); μόχθον ἀμφὶ πράγμασι Epigr. ap. Aeschin. 3.184; Ἀπελλείου μ. γραφίδος, of a picture, APl. 16.178 (Antip. Sid.).—Rare in early Prose (not in Pl. or Oratt.), cf. μ. καὶ ταλαιπωρίη Democ

In the wild

μόχθων · mochthōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1659–1660
μόχθους · mochthous Aeschylus, Agamemnon 555–557
μόχθων · mochthōn Aeschylus, Eumenides 503–505
μόχθοις · mochthois Aeschylus, Eumenides 248
μόχθος · mochthos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1020
μόχθοι · mochthoi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1068–1070

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