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φαλαρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαλαρίς φαλαρίδος

Structure: φαλαριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fala_ro/s

Sense

  1. the coot, bald white head

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

  • ἡ δὲ φαλαρὶσ καὶ αὐτὴ στενὸν ἔχουσα τὸ ῥύγχοσ στρογγυλωτέρα τὴν ὄψιν οὖσα ἔντεφροσ τὴν γαστέρα, μικρῷ μελαντέρα τὸν νῶτον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 2:1)
  • ὅθεν ὁ κατὰ πάντα Φάλαρισ βασιλεὺσ ἐμπληθυνθεὶσ ἀλογιστίασ καὶ τὰσ γινομένασ πρὸσ ἐπισκοπὴν τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐν αὐτῷ μεταβολὰσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ παῤ οὐδὲν ἡγούμενοσ, ἀτελέστατον ἐβεβαίωσεν ὅρκον, ὁρισάμενοσ τούτουσ μὲν ἀνυπερθέτωσ πέμψειν εἰσ ᾅδην ἐν γόνασι καὶ ποσὶ θηρίων ᾐκισμένουσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:42)
  • ἔπεμψεν ἡμᾶσ, ὦ Δελφοί, ὁ ἡμέτεροσ δυνάστησ Φάλαρισ ἄξοντασ τῷ θεῷ τὸν ταῦρον τοῦτον καὶ ὑμῖν διαλεξομένουσ τὰ εἰκότα ὑπέρ τε αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀναθήματοσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 1:1)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν ὧν βουλευόμεθα, ταῦτά ἐστιν, οὐ Φάλαρισ τύραννοσ εἷσ οὐδ’ ὁ ταῦροσ οὗτοσ οὐδὲ χαλκὸσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ πάντεσ βασιλεῖσ καὶ πάντεσ δυνάσται, ὅσοι νῦν χρῶνται τῷ ἱερῷ, καὶ χρυσὸσ καὶ ἄργυροσ καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τίμια, πολλάκισ ἀνατεθησόμενα τῷ θεῷ· (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 11:1)
  • "τοιοῦτο καὶ Φάλαρισ ἦν Ἀκραγαντίνοισ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 7 3:7)

Related

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

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