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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

  • 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)
  • ῥᾳδίωσ οὖν αὐτὰσ ὁ λυχνοφόροσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀνοίξειν οἰόμενοσ καὶ τὴν τοῦ κάνθωνοσ ὡσ ᾤετο κεφαλὴν ἔχων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 64:1)

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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