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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

  • ὥστε εἴ γε τὰ δίκαια ὁ Μίνωσ δικάζειν μέλλοι, τὴν Εἱμαρμένην ἀντὶ τοῦ Σισύφου κολάσεται καὶ τὴν Μοῖραν ἀντὶ τοῦ Ταντάλου. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 18:20)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξάνοιγε μηχανὰσ τὰσ Σισύφου, ὡσ σκῆψιν ἁγὼν οὗτοσ οὐκ ἐσδέξεται. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 13)
  • ἆρ’ ὁ Σισύφου γόνοσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees57)
  • οὕτωσ ὄντα καὶ περιττὸν Σισύφου γεγονέναι; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 10 7:1)
  • Μιθριδάτου δ’ ἀναγράφει κόλακα Σωσίπατρον ἄνθρωπον γόητα Νικόλαοσ ὁ περιπατητικόσ, Θεόπομποσ δ’ ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν Σισύφου φησὶ τοῦ Φαρσαλίου κόλακα καὶ ὑπηρέτην γενέσθαι Ἀθήναιον τὸν Ἐρετριέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 61 2:1)

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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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