χαλεπός .χαλεπός, ή, όν Lat. difficilis: hard to bear, painful, sore, grievous, Hom., Hdt., Attic; θώρακες δύσφοροι καὶ χ., of ill-fitting cuirasses, Xen.: τὸ χαλεπὸν τοῦ πνεύματος the severity of the wind, Xen.; τὰ χαλεπά hardships, sufferings, Xen. hard to do or deal with, difficult, Ar., Thuc., etc.; χαλεπὸν ὁ βίος life is a hard thing, Xen.:—c. inf., χαλεπή τοι ἐγὼ ἀντιφέρεσθαι χαλεπόν ἐστί μοι ἀντιφέρεσθαί σοι, Il.; so, χαλεπὸν δέ τʼ ὀρύσσειν τὸ μῶλυ Od.; χ. προσπολεμεῖν ὁ βασιλεύς Isocr.:— χαλεπόν ἐστι, c. inf., ʼtis hard, difficult to do, Hom. dangerous, Od., Thuc. of ground, difficult, rugged, Thuc., Xen.; χ. χωρίον a place difficult to take, Xen. of persons, hard to deal with, harsh, severe, stern, strict, Od.; χαλεπώτερος a more bitter enemy, Thuc.; χαλεπώτατοι most difficult to deal with, most dangerous or troublesome, Thuc.:—of judges, severe, Hdt., Dem. of savage animals, Xen. ill-tempered, angry, testy, Ar.; ὀργὴν χαλεπός Hdt. adv. χαλεπῶς, hardly, with difficulty, Lat. aegre, διαγνῶναι χ. ἦν ἄνδρα ἕκαστον ʼtwas difficult to distinguish, Il.; χ. εὑρίσκειν, opp. to ῥᾳδίως μανθάνειν, Isocr.; οὐ or μὴ χαλ. without much ado, Thuc. hardly, scarcely, δοκέω χ. ἂν Ἕλληνας Πέρσῃσι μάχεσθαι Hdt.; χ. ἂν πείσαιμι Plat. χ. ἔχει χαλεπόν ἐστι, Thuc., Xen. painfully, miserably, χαλεπώτερον, -ώτατα ζῆν Plat.; ἐν τοῖς χαλεπώτατα διάγειν to live in the utmost misery, Thuc. of persons, harshly, severely, Eur., Thuc., etc.:— χ. φέρειν τι, like Lat. aegre ferre, Thuc.: often in the phrase χ. ἔχειν, to be angry, Xen.; χ. ἔχειν τινὶ ἐπί τινι to be angry with a person for a thing, Dem.; χ. διακεῖσθαι πρός τινα Plat. χ. ἔχειν, also, = Lat. male se habere, Plat.