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κόβαλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόβαλος

Sense

  1. an impudent rogue, arrant knave, mischievous goblins, knavish tricks, rogues
  2. knavish tricks

Examples

  • διαρραγείησ, ὡσ μόθων εἶ καὶ φύσει κόβαλοσ, ὅστισ φενακίζεισ, φράσαι δ’ οὔπω τέτληκασ ἡμῖν, οἳ πολλὰ μοχθήσαντεσ οὐκ οὔσησ σχολῆσ προθύμωσ δεῦρ’ ἤλθομεν, πολλῶν θύμων ῥίζασ διεκπερῶντεσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Parodos19)
  • κόβαλοσ εἶ. (Aristotle, Agon, pnigos11)

Synonyms

  1. knavish tricks

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

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