sisyphus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sisyphus	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sisyphus n (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sisyphus \Sis"y*phus\, n. [L. Sisyphus, Sisyphus, fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?].] (Class. Myth.) A king of Corinth, son of [92]olus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.