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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

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

  • γυναικεῖοσ τὴν φύσιν, ἡμιμανήσ, ἀκράτου ἑώθεν ἀποπνέων ὁ δὲ καὶ ὅλην φατρίαν ἐσεποίησεν ἡμῖν καὶ τὸν χορὸν ἐπαγόμενοσ πάρεστι καὶ θεοὺσ ἀπέφηνε τὸν Πᾶνα καὶ τὸν Σιληνὸν καὶ Σατύρουσ, ἀγροίκουσ τινὰσ καὶ αἰπόλουσ τοὺσ πολλούσ, σκιρτητικοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ τὰσ μορφὰσ ἀλλοκότουσ· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:4)
  • Σιληνὸν μὲν γάρ τισ τὸν γλωσσογράφον ἔφασκεν Ἀθηναίουσ λέγειν τὰσ λαμπάδασ φανούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 2:1)
  • καθάπερ καὶ τὸν Φρύγα Μίδαν φησὶ Θεόπομποσ, ὅτε ἑλεῖν τὸν Σιληνὸν ὑπὸ μέθησ ἠθέλησεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 23 2:2)
  • Εὐφορίων δ’ ὁ ἐποποιὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ μελοποιῶν τὴν μὲν μονοκάλαμον σύριγγα Ἑρμῆν εὑρεῖν, τινὰσ δ’ ἱστορεῖν Σεύθην καὶ Ῥωνάκην τοὺσ Μαιδούσ,2 τὴν δὲ πολυκάλαμον Σιληνόν, Μαρσύαν δὲ τὴν κηρόδετον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 82 2:3)
  • πρεσβυτέροισι δὲ ἐσ ἰκτέρουσ ἢ κοιλίαι ταραχώδεεσ, οἱο͂ν Βίωνι τῷ παρὰ Σιληνὸν κατακειμένῳ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 139)

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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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