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τα^ρα^χώδης , ες,
A.given to troubling, disturbing, “τὸ θεῖον . . ἐὸν φθονερόν τε καὶ ταραχῶδες” Hdt.1.32; “τύχαι” Isoc.4.48; ἐλπίδες, ἔρωτες, Epicur.Fr.116, Phld.Mus.p.82 K.; ἴχνη τ. uncertain, baffling, X. Cyn.5.4; τ. ἡ κρίσις, ἡ σκέψις, Arist.Pol.1268b11, 1337a40; “πράξεις” Isoc.12.74; “φάρμακον” Luc.DMar.2.2.
2. of political agitators, D.H.6.70.
II. troubled, disordered, κοιλίη τ. Hp.Epid.1.2, Coac. 10; “βίος” Ph.2.223 (Sup.); confused, “μεταβολαί” Arist.Mete.361b34; “ἀπόρροιαι” Thphr.Sens.74; φύσις, κινήσεις, Epicur.Nat.42,46 G.
2. of an army, etc., “τ. ναυμαχία” Th.1.49; “στράτευμα” X.Cyr.3.3.26, Oec.8.4.
3. of the mind, disordered, delirious, γνῶμαι τ. Hp.Coac. 302; “τ. ἄγρυπνοι” Id.Prorrh.1.4 ( = τ. καὶ ἄ., where τ. = slightly disordered mentally, acc. to Gal.16.513).
4. turbid, of a liquid, Alex.Trall.Febr.2.
III. Adv. -δῶς, τ. ζῆν live in a state of confusion, Isoc.5.52; τ. ἔχειν πρός τινας to be rebelliously disposed, D. Ep.3.10; τ. ὑπειληφέναι περί τινος to have confused notions, Isoc. 12.15: Sup., “-έστατα διακεῖσθαι” Id.7.43, 8.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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