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φάλανθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάλανθος φάλανθον

Structure: φαλανθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: falo/s

Sense

  1. bald in front

Examples

  • Φάλανθοσ δ’ ἰδὼν τοὺσ κόρακασ ἐπορεύετο καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν κρατῆρα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 61 3:2)
  • συγκαταθεμένου δὲ τοῦ Ἰφίκλου ἐπιτεχνᾶται ὁ Φάλανθοσ τοιόνδε τι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 61 3:4)
  • Ἀρίστων ὁ Χῖοσ ὁ Φάλανθοσ, ἐπικαλούμενοσ Σειρήν, τέλοσ ἔφησεν εἶναι τὸ ἀδιαφόρωσ ἔχοντα ζῆν πρὸσ τὰ μεταξὺ ἀρετῆσ καὶ κακίασ μηδ’ ἡντινοῦν ἐν αὐτοῖσ παραλλαγὴν ἀπολείποντα, ἀλλ’ ἐπίσησ ἐπὶ πάντων ἔχοντα· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. b'. ARISTWN1)
  • τί δὴ γέρων ὢν καὶ φάλανθοσ, ὦ ῤίστων, τὸ βρέγμ’ ἔδωκασ ἡλίῳ κατοπτῆσαι; (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. b'. ARISTWN 4:3)
  • Τάραντα δὲ ἀπῴκισαν μὲν Λακεδαιμόνιοι, οἰκιστὴσ δὲ ἐγένετο Σπαρτιάτησ Φάλανθοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. bald in front

Related

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

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