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χάρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάρων χάρωνος

Structure: χαρων (Stem)

Etym.: poetic for xaropo/s: hence as prop. n.

Sense

  1. Charon, from his bright fierce eyes

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

  • Χάρωνοσ δὲ οὐδεὶσ λόγοσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 24:9)
  • οὐ μὴν Ἡρόδοτόσ γε τοῦτο ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ συγγραφέων γενομένων Ἑλλανίκου τε καὶ Χάρωνοσ τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν προεκδεδωκότων οὐκ ἀπετράπετο, ἀλλ’ ἐπίστευσεν αὑτῷ κρεῖσσόν τι ἐξοίσειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 7:1)
  • στέγαι δ’ ἔρημοι φίλων, τὰν δ’ ἀνόστιμον τέκνων Χάρωνοσ ἐπιμένει πλάτα βίου κέλευθον ἄθεον ἄδι‐ κον· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 33)
  • τοῦ δὲ Χάρωνοσ εἰσελθόντοσ; (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 27 6:1)
  • ταῦτα τοῦ Χάρωνοσ λέγοντοσ, τὸ μὲν φρόνημα καὶ τὴν καλοκἀγαθίαν ἐθαυμάζομεν, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ὑποψίαν ἠγανακτοῦμεν καὶ ἀπάγειν ἐκελεύομεν τὸν παῖδα. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 27 11:1)

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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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