very difficult, impracticable
very difficult, impracticable, of persons and things, Antipho 2.2.3, Pl. Phd. 85c, Cra. 409d, Lg. 708d, v.l. in X. An. 5.2.20: c. inf., Pl. Sph. 236d, Plt. 291c, Phlb. 16c. Adv. -πως, ἔχειν πρός τινα X. An. 7.5.16.
The corpus record
παγ-χάλεπος
pagchalepos
very difficult, impracticable
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Where it lives
- Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
- Alcibiades 1 1 · 0.98/10k
- Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
- Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
- Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
- Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
- Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
- Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
- Laws 4 · 0.39/10k
- Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
- Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
- Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Aristotle, Metaphysics book 3 (DIORISIS sentence 491)
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1158a (DIORISIS sentence 2783)
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Plato, Alcibiades 1 129
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Plato, Cratylus 409 (DIORISIS sentence 683)
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Plato, Epinomis 979
- παγχάλεπον · panchalepon Plato, Euthydemus 287
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Where it came from
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