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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

  • ὁ δὲ πολλῶν αὐτῷ μνηστευομένων τὴν θυγατέρα δώσειν ἔφη τῷ τὰσ Φυλάκου βόασ κομίσαντι αὐτῷ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 12:2)
  • οὐ βουλομένου δὲ τὰ πρῶτα τοῦ φυλάκου διδόναι ἀπείλεε τά μιν αὖτισ ποιήσει, ἐσ ὁ δείσασ τὰσ ἀπειλὰσ ὁ φύλακοσ ἦν γὰρ τῶν τισ εἱλωτέων διδοῖ οἱ μάχαιραν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 75 3:3)
  • τούτουσ δὲ τοὺσ δύο Δελφοὶ λέγουσι εἶναι ἐπιχωρίουσ ἡρ́ωασ, Φύλακόν τε καὶ Αὐτόνοον, τῶν τὰ τεμένεα ἐστὶ περὶ τὸ ἱρόν, Φυλάκου μὲν παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν ὁδὸν κατύπερθε τοῦ ἱροῦ τῆσ Προναίησ, Αὐτονόου δὲ πέλασ τῆσ Κασταλίησ ὑπὸ τῇ Υἁμπείῃ κορυφῇ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 39 2:1)
  • ἔχω μέν νυν συχνῶν οὐνόματα τριηράρχων καταλέξαι τῶν νέασ Ἑλληνίδασ ἑλόντων, χρήσομαι δὲ αὐτοῖσι οὐδὲν πλὴν Θεομήστορόσ τε τοῦ Ἀνδροδάμαντοσ καὶ Φυλάκου τοῦ Ἱστιαίου, Σαμίων ἀμφοτέρων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 85 3:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τῷ ἱερῷ τῆσ Προνοίασ Φυλάκου τέμενόσ ἐστιν ἡρ́ωοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 11:3)

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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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