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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

  • τέλοσ δὲ αὐτήν τε μαθεῖν ὡσ ἡμαρτήκοι τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ καὶ ἅμα ὑπὸ τοῦ Ιἄσονοσ φωραθεῖσαν ‐ οὐ γὰρ αὐτὸν ἔχειν δεομένῃ συγγνώμην, ἀποπλέοντα <δὲ> ἐσ Ιὠλκὸν οἴχεσθαι ‐ , τούτων δὲ ἕνεκα ἀπελθεῖν καὶ Μήδειαν παραδοῦσαν Σισύφῳ τὴν ἀρχήν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 18:2)
  • Σισύφῳ δὲ οὔτι Γλαῦκοσ μόνον ὁ Βελλεροφόντου πατὴρ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕτεροσ υἱὸσ ἐγένετο Ὀρνυτίων, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτῷ Θέρσανδρόσ τε καὶ Ἄλμοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 5:1)
  • τὴν δὲ πηγήν, ἥ ἐστιν ὄπισθεν τοῦ ναοῦ, δῶρον μὲν Ἀσωποῦ λέγουσιν εἶναι, δοθῆναι δὲ Σισύφῳ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 2:3)

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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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