[Meaning something] difficult to overcome. Pindar [writes]: "[it is] impossible to conceal one's inherent nature."[1]
Aelian [writes]: "they brought back an impossible multitude of fishes and raised up a trophy and erected altars."[2]
And elsewhere: "each man was assigned to explain his own deed. For they saw that the king/emperor was impossibly eager for this."[3]
And elsewhere: "there was a priestess for the god, of an impossible beauty."[4]
And elsewhere: "when the unexpected stormcloud had burst, an impossible mass of snow fell down."[5]
And elsewhere: "not an impossible sovereignty."[6]
And elsewhere: "inflamed with an unconquerable arrogance, he despised the fact of still being mortal."[7]