English-Italian translations for sisyphus

• Sisifo
  a nome del gruppo IND/DEM. - (SV) Signora Presidente, Sisifo è il mio secondo nome. on behalf of the IND/DEM Group. - (SV) Madam President, Sisyphus is my middle name.
  Paul-Valéry diceva che anche Sisifo, nel fare rotolare la roccia, non svolgeva un lavoro inutile, dato che si faceva i muscoli. Paul-Valéry said that even Sisyphus, in rolling his stone, was not working in vain since he was flexing his muscles.
  Da molto tempo sono convito che Sisifo sia il santo patrono d'Europa. I have long believed that Sisyphus is the patron saint of Europe, and this whole experience bears this out.

Definition of sisyphus

• tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades

Related words

• Sisyphean
• Sisyphism
• sisyphic
• Sisyphean labor
• Sisyphean task