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δείκηλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: δείκηλον

Structure: δεικηλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a representation, exhibition

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

  • τὸ δ’ ἀντίον ἀτρεκὲσ αὔτωσ χαλκείῃ δείκηλον ἐν ἀσπίδι φαίνετ’ ἰδέσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 13:30)
  • λευγαλέον δ’ ἐπί οἱ πρῖεν χόλον, ἐκ δ’ ἀίδηλα δείκηλα προϊάλλεν, ἐπιζάφελον κοτέουσα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:11)
  • οἵ τε γὰρ ἐγγὺσ πρὸσ τὴν ὄψιν ἐξεπλάγησαν ὡσ πεπατημένων αὐτοῖσ τῶν νόμων, οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀξιοῦσιν ἐν τῇ πόλει δείκηλον τίθεσθαι, καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἀγανάκτησιν τῶν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἄθρουσ ὁ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ λαὸσ συνέρρευσεν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 222:2)
  • Τῶν δὲ τὸν νόμον καὶ τὸ πάτριον ἔθοσ προτεινομένων καὶ ὡσ οὐδὲ θεοῦ τι δείκηλον, οὐχ ὅπωσ ἀνδρόσ, οὐ κατὰ τὸν ναὸν μόνον ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἐν εἰκαίῳ τινὶ τόπῳ τῆσ χώρασ θέσθαι θεμιτὸν εἰή, ὑπολαβὼν ὁ Πετρώνιοσ "ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἐμοὶ φυλακτέοσ ὁ τοὐμοῦ δεσπότου νόμοσ" , ἔφη· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 256:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ λίμνῃ ταύτῃ τὰ δείκηλα τῶν παθέων αὐτοῦ νυκτὸσ ποιεῦσι, τὰ καλέουσι μυστήρια Αἰγύπτιοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 171 2:1)

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

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