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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

  • σκευαὶ δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἦσαν τοῖσ μὲν εἰσ Σιληνοὺσ εἰκασθεῖσι μαλλωτοὶ χιτῶνεσ, οὓσ ἔνιοι χορταίουσ καλοῦσι, καὶ περιβόλαια ἐκ παντὸσ ἄνθουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 17:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ἡλικίᾳ τῶν Σατύρων προήκοντασ ὀνομάζουσι Σιληνούσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 8:2)

Related

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

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