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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φυλακός φυλακώ φυλακοί
Genitive φυλακοῦ φυλακοῖν φυλακῶν
Dative φυλακῷ φυλακοῖν φυλακοῖς
Accusative φυλακόν φυλακώ φυλακούς
Vocative φυλακέ φυλακώ φυλακοί

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

  • καὶ μὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶσ τόνδ’ Ἀλέξανδρον βλέπω στείχοντα, φυλάκων ἔκ τινοσ πεπυσμένον δόξασ ἀσήμουσ πολεμίων μεμβλωκότων. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:20)
  • τίνι προσεικάσω, ὅστισ δι’ ὄρφνησ ἦλθ’ ἀδειμάντῳ ποδὶ διά τε τάξεων καὶ φυλάκων ἕδρασ; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 14)
  • τὸ δὴ ἄχρι τῶν τυράννων προελθεῖν ^ οὐκ ἂν ὑπῆρξέ μοι, μὴ οὐχὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτοὺσ φυλάκων καὶ δορυφόρων ἁπάντων κεκρατηκότι κἀκείνουσ ἅπαντασ προνενικηκότι. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 15:4)
  • τίσ οὗτοσ οὑντὸσ τῶν φυλάκων ἑστώσ; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene19)
  • λύχνον γὰρ οὐδέπω δῆλον ὅτι πρόσθεν ἑωράκασιν οἱ τὰσ τοσαύτασ καὶ τηλικαύτασ λυχνοκαί̈ασ ἐπιτελοῦντεσ, ἀλλ’ οὐδέ τισ αὐτῷ βαδίζοντι κατὰ τὴν χώραν τῶν τοσούτων μυριάδων ὑπήντησεν, ἔρημα δὲ καὶ τὰ τείχη φυλάκων εὑρ͂ε πολέμου συνεστηκότοσ, ἐῶ τἆλλα. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 62:1)

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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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