εἴρων
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
εἴρων
εἴρωνος
Structure:
εἰρων
(Stem)
Sense
- One who says less than they think, dissembler, pretender
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.
- νῦν οὖν ἀτεχνῶσ ὅ τι βούλονται τουτὶ τοὐμὸν σῶμ’ αὐτοῖσιν παρέχω, τύπτειν πεινῆν διψῆν αὐχμεῖν ῥιγῶν ἀσκὸν δείρειν, εἴπερ τὰ χρέα διαφευξοῦμαι, τοῖσ τ’ ἀνθρώποισ εἶναι δόξω θρασὺσ εὔγλωττοσ τολμηρὸσ ἴτησ βδελυρὸσ ψευδῶν συγκολλητὴσ εὑρησιεπὴσ περίτριμμα δικῶν κύρβισ κρόταλον κίναδοσ τρύμη μάσθλησ εἴρων γλοιὸσ ἀλαζὼν κέντρων μιαρὸσ στρόφισ ἀργαλέοσ ματιολοιχόσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests 2:3)
- οὐδὲν δ’ ὠφεληθεὶσ διὰ τὸ ταραχώδη καὶ πολυπτόητον αὐτῷ περὶ τοὺσ ἐπαίνουσ γεγονέναι τὴν ἀκρόασιν ἀπέρχεται τῶν τριῶν ἓν φερόμενοσ εἴρων γὰρ ἢ κόλαξ ἢ περὶ λόγουσ ἀπειρόκαλοσ; (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 13 9:1)
- ἀλαζὼν δὲ ὁ πλείω τῶν ὑπαρχόντων προσποιούμενοσ, εἴρων δὲ ὁ ἐλάττω· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 59:2)
- ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω καθ’ αὑτοῦ ψευδόμενοσ μὴ ἀγνοῶν εἴρων, ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ τὰ βελτίω ἀλαζών, ὁ δ’ ὡσ ἔχει, ἀληθὴσ καὶ καθ’ Ὅμηρον πεπνυμένοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 132:2)
- Ἡ μὲν οὖν εἰρωνεία δόξειεν ἂν εἶναι, ὡσ τύπῳ λαβεῖν, προσποίησισ ἐπὶ χεῖρον πράξεων καὶ λόγων, ὁ δὲ εἴρων τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ προσελθὼν τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ ἐθέλειν λαλεῖν, οὐ μισεῖν· (Theophrastus, Characters, 1:1)
