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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

  • Φιλίσκῳ γὰρ καὶ Ἐπαμείνονι καὶ Σιληνῷ τεταρταίῳ καὶ πεμπταίῳ σμικρὸν ἀπὸ Ῥινῶν ἔσταξεν‧ ἀπέθανον. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 132)
  • γενομένησ γὰρ τῷ Σιληνῷ τῆσ συμφορᾶσ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν Μαρσύαν κατενεγκεῖν αὐτοὺσ ἐσ τὸν Μαίανδρον, ἀναφανέντασ δὲ ἐν τῷ Ἀσωπῷ καὶ κατὰ τὴν Σικυωνίαν ἐκπεσόντασ ὑπὸ ποιμένοσ τοῦ εὑρόντοσ δοθῆναι τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 16:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ Σιληνοῦ ναὸσ ἐνταῦθα, ἰδίᾳ τῷ Σιληνῷ καὶ οὐχ ὁμοῦ Διονύσῳ πεποιημένοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 13:1)

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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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