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κάλλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλλιον

Structure: καλλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἔνεστιν εἰπεῖν, ὅτι δι’ ἀνάγκην ἦλθεν ἐπὶ ταύτην τὴν γραφήν, ἐπιστάμενοσ μὲν ὡσ ἐκεῖνα καλλίω, βουλόμενοσ δὲ μὴ ταὐτὰ ἑτέροισ γράφειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 6:2)
  • Οὐκοῦν σύ, Δωρί, δεῖξον ἡμῖν τὸν σεαυτῆσ, καλλίω δῆλον ὅτι ὄντα καὶ ᾠδικώτερον καὶ κιθαρίζειν ἄμεινον ἐπιστάμενον. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and galataea, chapter 53)
  • οὐκ οἶδα ἔγωγε καλλίω παῖδα ἰδών. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 12)
  • ἀξία γὰρ οὐ τὸ σῶμα μόνον ὥσπερ ἡ Ἑλένη καλὴ οὖσα,, καλλίω δὲ καὶ ἐρασμιωτέραν ^ ὑπ’ αὐτῷ τὴν ψυχὴν σκέπουσα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 22:2)
  • πέντε γάρ, εἰ βούλει, καλλίω καὶ μείζω τοῦ Αἰγυπτίου πλοίου ἤδη ἔχε, καὶ τὸ μέγιστον οὐδὲ καταδῦναι δυνάμενα, καὶ τάχα σοι πεντάκισ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου κατ̓ ἔτοσ ἕκαστον σιταγωγείτωσαν σιταγωγίαν, εἰ καί, ὦ ναυκλήρων ἄριστε, δῆλοσ εἶ ἀφόρητοσ ἡμῖν τότε γενησόμενοσ· (Lucian, 25:3)

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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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