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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

  • νὴ Δί’, ἔφη ὁ Κριτόβουλοσ, ἢ πάντων Σειληνῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ σατυρικοῖσ αἴσχιστοσ ἂν εἰήν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 20:4)
  • τὰ δ’ ἀπωτέρω τῆσ ὑποθέσεωσ ταύτησ, ἄλλωσ δὲ διὰ τὴν ὁμωνυμίαν εἰσ ταὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῶν ἱστορικῶν ἀγόμενα, ἅπερ Κουρητικὰ μὲν καὶ περὶ Κουρήτων λέγεται, ὁμοίωσ ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ περὶ τῶν τὴν Αἰτωλίαν καὶ τὴν Ἀκαρνανίαν οἰκησάντων, ἐκείνων μὲν διαφέρει, ἐοίκε δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ περὶ Σατύρων καὶ Σειληνῶν καὶ Βακχῶν καὶ Τιτύρων λόγῳ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 12:1)

Related

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

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