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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

  • τριήραρχοι δὲ αὐτοῖσιν ἐπεστάθησαν ἐκ Μακεδόνων μὲν Ἡφαιστίων τε ὁ Ἀμύντοροσ, καὶ Λεόννατοσ ὁ Ἀντέου, καὶ Λυσίμαχοσ ὁ Ἀγαθοκλέοσ, καὶ Ἀσκληπιόδωροσ ὁ Τιμάνδρου, καὶ Ἄρχων ὁ Κλεινίεω, καὶ Δημόνικοσ ὁ Ἀθηναίου, καὶ Ἀρχίησ ὁ Ἀναξιδότεω, καὶ Ὀφέλασ ὁ Σειληνοῦ, καὶ Τιμάνθησ ὁ Παντιάδεω. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 18 3:1)
  • ἤδη δὲ τοῦ Σειληνοῦ μειρακίου γεγονότοσ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν πρᾶξιν ἥκοντοσ, ἐξέπεσε τοῦ δράματοσ ὁ Λύσανδροσ ἀτολμία· (Plutarch, , chapter 26 4:1)
  • καὶ αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐχορήγησε κυκλίῳ χορῷ τῇ αὑτοῦ φυλῇ ἀγωνιζομένῃ διθυράμβῳ, καὶ νικήσασ ἀνέθηκε τρίποδα ἐφ’ ὑψηλοῦ ἀντικρὺ τοῦ πωρίνου Σειληνοῦ. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 14:1)
  • διερχόμενοσ οὖν Φολόην ἐπιξενοῦται Κενταύρῳ Φόλῳ, Σειληνοῦ καὶ νύμφησ μελίασ παιδί. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 4:3)

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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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