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Σειληνός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σειληνός Σειληνοῦ

Structure: Σειλην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Silenus

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "καὶ γὰρ Ἡρακλῆσ Κέρκωψί τισι, καὶ Σειληνοῖσ ὁ Διόνυσοσ ἐτέρπετο, καὶ παρὰ σοὶ τοιούτουσ ἰδεῖν ἔστιν εὐδοκιμοῦντασ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 18 2:2)
  • νῦν δ’ ἡμῖν οὐ γῆρασ ἔτ’ ἀδρανέσ, ἀλλ’ ὁ πεδητὰσ Σειληνοῖσ κώμων βάσκανόσ ἐστι λίθοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7563)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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