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Σιληνός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σιληνός Σιληνοῦ

Structure: Σιλην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: later form of Seilhno/s.

Sense

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Σιληνός Σιληνώ Σιληνοί
Genitive Σιληνοῦ Σιληνοῖν Σιληνῶν
Dative Σιληνῷ Σιληνοῖν Σιληνοῖς
Accusative Σιληνόν Σιληνώ Σιληνούς
Vocative Σιληνέ Σιληνώ Σιληνοί

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

  • φημὶ γὰρ δὴ ὁμοιότατον αὐτὸν εἶναι τοῖσ σιληνοῖσ τούτοισ τοῖσ ἐν τοῖσ ἑρμογλυφείοισ καθημένοισ, οὕστινασ ἐργάζονται οἱ δημιουργοὶ σύριγγασ ἢ αὐλοὺσ ἔχοντασ, οἳ διχάδε διοιχθέντεσ φαίνονται ἔνδοθεν ἀγάλματα ἔχοντεσ θεῶν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 472:3)
  • οἱο͂σ δὲ οὑτοσὶ γέγονε τὴν ἀτοπίαν ἅνθρωποσ, καὶ αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ λόγοι αὐτοῦ, οὐδ’ ἐγγὺσ ἂν εὑρ́οι τισ ζητῶν, οὔτε τῶν νῦν οὔτε τῶν παλαιῶν, εἰ μὴ ἄρα εἰ οἷσ ἐγὼ λέγω ἀπεικάζοι τισ αὐτόν, ἀνθρώπων μὲν μηδενί, τοῖσ δὲ σιληνοῖσ καὶ σατύροισ, αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 523:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ οὖν καὶ τοῦτο ἐν τοῖσ πρώτοισ παρέλιπον, ὅτι καὶ οἱ λόγοι αὐτοῦ ὁμοιότατοί εἰσι τοῖσ σιληνοῖσ τοῖσ διοιγομένοισ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 524:1)

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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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