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φυλακός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυλακός φυλακοῦ

Structure: φυλακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic and ionic for fu/lac, Il., Hdt.

Sense

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

  • νῦν μὲν κἠπὶ τὰ χρύσεα μᾶλ’ ἔνεκεν σέθεν βαίην καὶ φύλακον νεκύων πεδὰ Κέρβερον, τότα δ’ οὐδὲ καλεῦντοσ ἐπ’ αὐλεϊαίσ θύραισ προμόλοιμί κε παυσάμενοσ χαλέπω πόθω. (Theocritus, Idylls, 21)
  • Φύλακον δ’ ἕλε Λήϊτοσ ἡρ́ωσ φεύγοντ’· (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 6:5)
  • ὡσ δὲ τρίτη ἡμέρη τῷ παιδίῳ ἐκκειμένῳ ἐγένετο, ἠιέ ἐσ πόλιν ὁ βουκόλοσ, τῶν τινα προβοσκῶν φύλακον αὐτοῦ καταλιπών, ἐλθὼν δὲ ἐσ τοῦ Ἁρπάγου ἀποδεικνύναι ἔφη ἕτοιμοσ εἶναι τοῦ παιδίου τὸν νέκυν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 113 3:2)
  • κατηγόρεον δὲ ταῦτα πρόσ τε τοὺσ ἱρέασ καὶ τὸν στόματοσ τούτου φύλακον, τῷ οὔνομα ἦν Θῶνισ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 113 4:3)
  • ὁ δὲ δεθεὶσ τὸν φύλακον μουνωθέντα ἰδὼν τῶν ἄλλων αἰτέει μάχαιραν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 75 3:2)

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

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