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κάνθων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνθων κάνθωνος

Structure: κανθων (Stem)

Etym.: = kanqh/lios,

Sense

  1. a pack-ass

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

  • ὡσ δὲ συνεδήχθησαν, διέτριψε τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλεπίσθη ἀπὸ τῶν κάνθων τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ τὰ λευκώματα. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 11:11)
  • ἥσυχοσ ἥσυχοσ, ἠρέμα, κάνθων· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests1)
  • κάνθων τί κλάεισ; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 4:50)
  • τὴν πορείαν ποιουμένων, τοὺσ μὲν Ιοὐδαίουσ ὑπὸ τοῦ παραδόξου τῆσ θέασ καταπεπληγμένουσ πόρρω μένοντασ ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν, τὸν δὲ Ζάβιδον ἐπὶ πολλῆσ ἡσυχίασ εἰσ τὸν ναὸν παρελθεῖν καὶ τὴν χρυσῆν ἀποσῦραι τοῦ κάνθωνοσ κεφαλήν, οὕτω γὰρ ἀστεϊζόμενοσ γέγραφεν, καὶ πάλιν εἰσ Δῶρα τὸ τάχοσ ἀπελθεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 58:1)
  • ἆρα οὖν καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἂν εἴποιμεν, ὅτι τὸν κάνθωνα τουτέστιν ἑαυτὸν Ἀπίων ἐπιφορτίζει καὶ ποιεῖ τῆσ μωρολογίασ ἅμα καὶ τῶν ψευσμάτων κατάγομον; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 58:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pack-ass

Related

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

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