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Τελχίν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τελχίν Τελχῖνος

Structure: Τελχιν (Stem)

Sense

  1. one of the Telchines
  2. a mischievous elf

Declension

Third 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

  • καίτοι γ’, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, διὰ τὴν τοῦ ποδὸσ πρὸσ τὴν λύραν ἀμετρίαν καὶ ἀναρμοστίαν οὔτε ἀδελφὸσ ἀδελφῷ πολεμεῖ οὔτε φίλοσ φίλῳ διαφέρεται, οὔτε πόλεισ πόλεσι δι’ ἀπεχθείασ γινόμεναι τὰ ἔσχατα κακὰ δρῶσί τε καὶ πάσχουσιν ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων οὐδὲ περὶ προσῳδίασ ἔχει τισ εἰπεῖν στάσιν ἐν πόλει γενομένην, ποτέρωσ Τελχινασ ἢ Τελχινασ ἀναγνωστέον· (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 23)
  • πότερον Τελχινασ ἢ Τέλχινασ ἀναγνωστέον οὐδ’ ἐν οἰκίᾳ διαφορὰν ἀνδρὸσ καὶ γυναικὸσ ὑπὲρ κρόκησ ἢ στήμονοσ. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 2 2:1)
  • χρόνῳ δ’ ὕστερον προαισθομένουσ τοὺσ Τελχῖνασ τὸν μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι κατακλυσμὸν ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν νῆσον καὶ διασπαρῆναι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 56 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mischievous elf

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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