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Σίσυφος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σίσυφος Σίσυφου

Structure: Σισυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. a redupl. form of sofo/s (with aeolic u for o the crafty.)

Sense

  1. the craftiest

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

  • τοὔμπαλιν δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὃσ ὑποτακτικοῦ παραλαμβάνει τὸ προτακτικὸν ὅ, οἱο͂ν ἔνθα δέ Σίσυφοσ ἔσκεν, ὃ κέρδιστοσ γένετ’ ἀνδρῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 84 3:2)
  • καὶ τὴν Σιλανίωνοσ Ιὀκάστην ὁμοίουσ φθίνουσι καὶ ἀποθνῄσκουσι πεποιημένουσ ὁρῶντεσ χαίρομεν οὕτωσ ὁ νέοσ ἀναγιγνώσκων ἃ Θερσίτησ ὁ γελωτοποιὸσ ἢ Σίσυφοσ ὁ φθορεὺσ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 9:1)
  • Σίσυφοσ δὲ ὁ Αἰόλου κτίσασ Ἐφύραν τὴν νῦν λεγομένην Κόρινθον γαμεῖ Μερόπην τὴν Ἄτλαντοσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 3:1)
  • κολάζεται δὲ Σίσυφοσ ἐν Αἵδου πέτρον ταῖσ χερσὶ καὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ κυλίων, καὶ τοῦτον ὑπερβάλλειν θέλων· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 3:3)
  • τούτων Στερόπην μὲν Οἰνόμαοσ ἔγημε, Σίσυφοσ <δὲ> Μερόπην. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 2:2)

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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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