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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

  • ἀλλὰ θαρρῶν ἐπαγγέλλομαι αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι ἢν καὶ νῦν ὡσ πρότερόν ποτε τὴν τελετὴν ἐθελήσωσιν ἐπιδεῖν πολλάκισ καὶ ἀναμνησθῶσιν οἱ παλαιοὶ συμπόται κώμων κοινῶν τῶν τότε καιρῶν καὶ μὴ καταφρονήσωσιν τῶν Σατύρων καὶ Σιληνῶν, πίωσι δὲ ἐσ κόρον τοῦ κρατῆροσ τούτου, ἔτι βακχεύσειν καὶ αὐτοὺσ καὶ πολλάκισ μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἐρεῖν τὸ εὐοῖ. (Lucian, (no name) 5:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ δὴ Κριτόβουλοσ, μειράκιον ἀστεῖον, γέροντα καὶ διδάσκαλον αὑτοῦ τὸν Σωκράτη σκώπτει πολὺ τῶν Σιληνῶν αἰσχίονα λέγων εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 13 4:1)
  • εἰσ Διόνυσον, Σεμέλην τὴν μητέρα εἰσ οὐρανὸν ἀνάγοντα προηγουμένου Ἑρμοῦ, Σατύρων δὲ καὶ Σιληνῶν μετὰ λαμπάδων προπεμπόντων αὐτούσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 11)
  • θνητὸν δὲ εἶναι τὸ γένοσ τῶν Σιληνῶν εἰκάσαι τισ ἂν μάλιστα ἐπὶ τοῖσ τάφοισ αὐτῶν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 13:3)

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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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