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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

  • καὶ ἀφῆκε Δαυὶδ τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ ἀφ̓ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπὶ χεῖρα φύλακοσ καὶ ἔδραμεν εἰσ τὴν παράταξιν καὶ ἦλθε καὶ ἠρώτησε τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ αὐτοῦ εἰσ εἰρήνην. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:43)
  • "εἶτα νύκτωρ καὶ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν γλυκεῖ’ ὀπώρα φύλακοσ ἐκλελοιπότοσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 521)
  • "ἦν δέ που μὴ γενέσθαι κρεῖττον ἢ γενέσθαι κακόν, ἁμαρτάνοντα κηδεμόνοσ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ φύλακοσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 15 1:5)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ὁ Περδίκκασ ἐφ’ ἃ μὲν ὡρ́μητο πιστεύων δι’ αὑτοῦ προσάξεσθαι, τὰ δὲ ὑπολειπόμενα δεῖσθαι δραστηρίου τε καὶ πιστοῦ φύλακοσ οἰόμενοσ, ἀπέπεμψεν ἐκ Κιλικίασ τὸν Εὐμενῆ, λόγῳ μὲν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σατραπείαν, ἔργῳ δὲ τὴν ὅμορον Ἀρμενίαν τεταραγμένην ὑπὸ Νεοπτολέμου διὰ χειρὸσ ἕξοντα. (Plutarch, chapter 4 1:1)
  • τῷ δ’ ἐπόπισθεν σκύπφον ἔχων ἑτέρῃ, ἑτέρῃ δὲ σκῆπτρον ἀείρασ ἔστειχεν Φύλακοσ καὶ ἐνὶ δμώεσσιν ἐείπεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 99 1:4)

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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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