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κόλαξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλαξ κόλακος

Structure: κολακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a flatterer, fawner

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

  • καὶ οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ κόλαξιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ ἀγοραίοισ καὶ βωμολόχοισ ἀντεξεταζόμενοσ καὶ ἐν τοσούτῳ πλήθει Ῥωμαϊκῷ μόνοσ ξενίζων τῷ τρίβωνι καὶ πονηρῶσ τὴν Ῥωμαίων φωνὴν βαρβαρίζων, εἶτα δειπνῶν δεῖπνα θορυβώδη καὶ πολυάνθρωπα συγκλύδων τινῶν καὶ τῶν πλείστων μοχθηρῶν; (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 24:3)
  • ἁπάντων οὖν τῶν τοιούτων κατεγέλα τῶν παρεχόντων αὑτοὺσ τοῖσ κόλαξιν, καὶ προσετίθει δὲ ὅτι μὴ ἐν ἐπαίνοισ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν γραφαῖσ τὰ ὅμοια πολλοὶ κολακεύεσθαί τε καὶ ἐξαπατᾶσθαι θέλουσι. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 6:1)
  • εἰκότωσ γὰρ ἠγανάκτει δυστυχῶν ἐπεὶ καὶ ὅμοια ποιήσομεν τοῖσ καταράτοισ κόλαξιν ἐκείνοισ ἐπιλελησμένοι ἀνδρὸσ τοσαῦτα μηρία ταύρων τε καὶ αἰγῶν πιότατα καύσαντοσ ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τῶν βωμῶν· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 9:2)
  • "κεκωμῴδηται δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ Εὐπόλιδοσ ὡσ ἀκόλαστοσ πρὸσ γυναῖκασ ἐν Κόλαξιν οὕτωσ Ἀλκιβιάδησ ἐκ τῶν γυναικῶν ἐξίτω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:10)
  • τῇ δὲ λαγὼν ἡ διὰ τοῦ ω παραπλησίωσ προσαγορευομένη λαγῲ παρ’ Εὐπόλιδι ἐν Κόλαξιν ’ ἵνα πάρα μὲν βατίδεσ καὶ λαγῲ καὶ γυναῖκεσ εἱλίποδεσ εἰσὶν δ’ οἳ καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀλόγωσ κατὰ τὴν τελευτῶσαν συλλαβὴν περισπωμένωσ προφέρονται, δεῖ δὲ ὀξυτονεῖν τὴν λέξιν, ἐπειδὴ τὰ εἰσ οσ λήγοντα τῶν ὀνομάτων ὁμότονά ἐστι, κἂν μεταληφθῇ εἰσ τὸ ω παρ’ Ἀττικοῖσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6210)

Synonyms

  1. a flatterer

    • θώψ (a flatterer, fawner, false friend)

Related

Similar forms

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

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