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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

  • σὺ δ’ ἐκεῖ μὲν οὐδεπώποτε ἀνέστησ οὐδὲ λόγον περὶ αὐτῶν ἐποιήσω, ἐνθάδε δὲ μισεῖσ Ὀλυμπιάδα ἐπὶ τῷ ἀπολέσαι Εὐξένιππον, καὶ φῂσ κόλακα αὐτὸν εἶναι ἐκείνησ καὶ Μακεδόνων· (Hyperides, Speeches, 20:1)
  • καὶ ἔμελλέ γε οὕτωσ ἀγανακτήσειν ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ, ὅσ γε οὐδὲ τὴν τοῦ ἀρχιτέκτονοσ τόλμαν ἠνέσχετο, ὑποσχομένου τὸν Ἄθω εἰκόνα ποιήσειν αὐτοῦ καὶ μετακοσμήσειν τὸ ὄροσ εἰσ ὁμοιότητα τοῦ βασιλέωσ, ἀλλὰ κόλακα εὐθὺσ ἐπιγνοὺσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐκέτ̓ οὐδ̓ ἐσ τὰ ἄλλα ὁμοίωσ ἐχρῆτο. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 12 1:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ κόλακα πρέπον ἐστὶν εἶναι οὔτε μυκτηριστήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 12 2:1)
  • Κλείσοφον γοῦν τὸν ὑπὸ πάντων κόλακα Φιλίππου τοῦ τῶν Μακεδόνων βασιλέωσ ἀναγραφόμενον ̔ Ἀθηναῖοσ δ’ ἦν γένοσ, ὥσ φησι Σάτυροσ ὁ περιπατητικὸσ ἐν τῷ Φιλίππου βίῳ ̓ Λυγκεὺσ ὁ Σάμιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἀπομνημονεύμασι παράσιτον ὀνομάζει λέγων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 53 1:2)
  • Φίλιππον δέ φησι Θεόπομποσ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ καὶ τεσσαρακοστῇ τῶν ἱστοριῶν Θρασυδαῖον τὸν Θεσσαλὸν καταστῆσαι τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν τύραννον, μικρὸν μὲν ὄντα τὴν γνώμην, κόλακα δὲ μέγιστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 1:1)

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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