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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

  • τῇσι δὲ Σειληνοὶ καὶ ἐύσκοποσ Ἀργειφόντησ μίσγοντ’ ἐν φιλότητι μυχῷ σπείων ἐροέντων. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 27:7)
  • ταῦτα αὖ Σειληνοί τε μαρτυροῦσι καὶ οἱ περὶ τοῦτον χορευταί· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:17)
  • πρόπολοι δὲ τῶν Μουσῶν οἱ πεπαιδευμένοι πάντεσ, καὶ ἰδίωσ οἱ μουσικοί, τοῦ δ’ Ἀπόλλωνοσ οὗτοί τε καὶ οἱ περὶ μαντικήν, Δήμητροσ δὲ οἵ τε μύσται καὶ δᾳδοῦχοι καὶ ἱεροφάνται, Διονύσου δὲ Σειληνοί τε καὶ Σάτυροι καὶ Τίτυροι καὶ Βάκχαι, Λῆναί τε καὶ Θυῖαι καὶ Μιμαλλόνεσ καὶ Ναί̈δεσ καὶ Νύμφαι προσαγορευόμεναι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 18:7)

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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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