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βλάξ?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: blax

Principal Part: βλάξ βλακός

Structure: βλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. slack, stupid, a dolt

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

  • "βλὰξ ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ παντὶ λόγῳ ἐπτοῆσθαι φιλεῖ. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 7 3:1)
  • οἱο῀ν Ἱπποκράτης γεωμετρικὸς ὤν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐδόκει βλὰξ καὶ ἄφρων εἶναι, καὶ πολὺ χρυσίον πλέων ἀπώλεσεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Βυζαντίῳ πεντηκοστολόγων δι εὐήθειαν, ὡς λέγουσιν ἀλλ ὅτι καὶ ἐν οἷς εὐτυχοῦσιν ἄφρονες. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 20:2)
  • ἢν δὲ τοσοῦτον ἐπιδιδῶ, δέδοικα, ἔφη, μὴ παντάπασι βλάξ τις καὶ ἠλίθιος γένωμαι: (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 16:6)
  • ἦ γὰρ ἂν παντάπασι βλὰξ εἰήν τις: (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:11)

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

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