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φέναξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέναξ φένακος

Structure: φενακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a cheat, quack, impostor

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

  • ὄνομα δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ φέναξ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:19)
  • κἄγωγ’ ὅτε δὴ γ’νων ἐνδεχομένην τοὺσ λόγουσ καὶ τοῖσ φενακισμοῖσιν ἐξαπατωμένην, ἄγε δὴ Σκίταλοι καὶ Φένακεσ, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, Βερέσχεθοί τε καὶ Κόβαλοι καὶ Μόθων, ἀγορά τ’ ἐν ᾗ παῖσ ὢν ἐπαιδεύθην ἐγώ, νῦν μοι φράσοσ καὶ γλῶτταν εὔπορον δότε φωνήν τ’ ἀναιδῆ. (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics5)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐμαυτὸν μέν γε τὴν ποίησιν οἱο͂́σ εἰμι, ἐν τοῖσιν ὑστάτοισ φράσω, τοῦτον δὲ πρῶτ’ ἐλέγξω, ὡσ ἦν ἀλαζὼν καὶ φέναξ οἱοίσ τε τοὺσ θεατὰσ ἐξηπάτα μώρουσ λαβὼν παρὰ Φρυνίχῳ τραφέντασ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme1)
  • καὶ ναὶ μὰ Δί’ ὄρνιν τριπλάσιον Κλεωνύμου παρέθηκεν ἡμῖν ὄνομα δ’ ἦν αὐτῷ φέναξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 6 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. a cheat

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

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