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κάνδυς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνδυς κάνδυος

Structure: κανδυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Median cloak with sleeves

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλ’ ὁ Ἄττησ γε, ὦ Ζεῦ, καὶ ὁ Κορύβασ καὶ ὁ Σαβάζιοσ, πόθεν ἡμῖν ἐπεισεκυκλήθησαν οὗτοι, ἢ ὁ Μίθρησ ἐκεῖνοσ, ὁ Μῆδοσ, ὁ τὸν κάνδυν καὶ τὴν τιάραν, οὐδὲ ἑλληνίζων τῇ φωνῇ, ὥστε οὐδ’ ἢν προπίῃ τισ ξυνίησι ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 9:2)
  • ἐγὼ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, τουτονὶ κομιδῇ μειράκιον ὄντα, βάρβαρον ἔτι τὴν φωνὴν καὶ μονονουχὶ κάνδυν ἐνδεδυκότα εἰσ τὸν Ἀσσύριον τρόπον, περὶ τὴν Ιὠνίαν εὑροῦσα πλαζόμενον ἔτι καὶ ὅ τι χρήσαιτο ἑαυτῷ οὐκ εἰδότα παραλαβοῦσα ἐπαίδευσα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 27:1)
  • σὺ δὲ καὶ τὴν Μακεδονικὴν χλαμύδα καταβαλὼν κάνδυν, ὥσ φασι, μετενέδυσ καὶ τιάραν ὀρθὴν ἐπέθου καὶ προσκυνεῖσθαι ὑπὸ Μακεδόνων, ὑπ̓ ἐλευθέρων ἀνδρῶν, ἠξίουσ, καὶ τὸ πάντων γελοιότατον, ἐμιμοῦ τὰ τῶν νενικημένων. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)
  • τοῦτο δ̓ οὐκ ἂν δύναιτο, ἄχρι ἂν ἢ φοβῆται Ἀρτοξέρξην ἰατρὸσ αὐτοῦ ὤν, ἢ ἐλπίζῃ κάνδυν πορφυροῦν καὶ στρεπτὸν χρυσοῦν καὶ ἵππον τῶν Νισαίων λήψεσθαι μισθὸν τῶν ἐν τῇ γραφῇ ἐπαίνων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 392)
  • ἐν δὲ θήρᾳ τινὶ Τηριβάζου δείξαντοσ αὐτῷ τόν κάνδυν ἐσχισμένον, ἠρώτησεν ὅ τι δεῖ ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 5 2:1)

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

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