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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

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ οὐδὲν τεκμήριον λογίζῃ, ὡσ ἐγὼ σοῦ καλλίων εἰμί, ὅτι καὶ Ναί̈δεσ θεοὶ οὖσαι τοὺσ Σειληνοὺσ ἐμοὶ ὁμοιοτέρουσ τίκτουσιν ἢ σοί; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 5 8:5)
  • ὅση μὲν βακχεία τ’ ἐστὶν καὶ τῶν ταύταισ ἑπομένων, ἃσ Νύμφασ τε καὶ Πᾶνασ καὶ Σειληνοὺσ καὶ Σατύρουσ ἐπονομάζοντεσ, ὥσ φασιν, μιμοῦνται κατῳνωμένουσ, περὶ καθαρμούσ τε καὶ τελετάσ τινασ ἀποτελούντων, σύμπαν τοῦτο τῆσ ὀρχήσεωσ τὸ γένοσ οὔθ’ ὡσ εἰρηνικὸν οὔθ’ ὡσ πολεμικὸν οὔθ’ ὅτι ποτὲ βούλεται ῥᾴδιον ἀφορίσασθαι· (Plato, Laws, book 7 169:1)
  • συστρατεῦσαι δέ φασι καὶ τῶν Νυσαίων τοὺσ εὐγενεστάτουσ, οὓσ ὀνομάζεσθαι Σειληνούσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 72 1:2)

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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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