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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

  • ὑπολαμβάνοντεσ δὲ οἱ κόλακεσ τὴν μειρακιώδη ταύτην τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐπιθυμίαν προσεξέκαιον εὐθὺσ καὶ ἀνεζωπύρουν ὀνείρατα διηγούμενοι τοῦ Ἡφαιστίωνοσ, ἐπιφανείασ τινὰσ καὶ ἰάματα προσάπτοντεσ αὐτῷ καὶ μαντείασ ἐπιφημίζοντεσ· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 17:5)
  • ἐλέγοντο δὲ εἶναι μοιχοὶ καὶ πορνοβοσκοὶ καὶ τελῶναι καὶ κόλακεσ καὶ συκοφάνται καὶ τοιοῦτοσ ὅμιλοσ τῶν πάντα κυκώντων ἐν τῷ βίῳ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 11:3)
  • οὐ μόνον δὲ τοῦτο ἑκατέρου αὐτῶν γνώρισμά ἐστιν, τὸ τοὺσ μὲν κόλακασ οὐκ ὀκνεῖν καὶ ψεύδεσθαι τοῦ χαρίσασθαι ἕνεκα τοῖσ ἐπαινουμένοισ, ἐξαίρειν δὲ τοὺσ ἐπαινοῦντασ τὰ ὑπάρχοντα πειρᾶσθαι ἀλλὰ κἀκείνῳ οὐ μικρῷ διαλλάττουσιν, ὅτι οἱ μὲν κόλακεσ, ἐφ’ ὅσον οἱο͂́ν τε αὐτοῖσ, χρῶνται ταῖσ ὑπερβολαῖσ, οἱ ἐπαινοῦντεσ δὲ καὶ ἐν αὐταῖσ ταύταισ σωφρονοῦσιν καὶ ἐντὸσ τῶν ὁρ́ων μένουσιν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 21:1)
  • πολὺ δὲ τούτων οἱ προσιόντεσ αὐτοὶ καὶ θεραπεύοντεσ γελοιότεροι, νυκτὸσ μὲν ἐξανιστάμενοι μέσησ, περιθέοντεσ δὲ ἐν κύκλῳ τὴν πόλιν καὶ πρὸσ τῶν οἰκετῶν ἀποκλειόμενοι, κύνεσ καὶ κόλακεσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀκούειν ὑπομένοντεσ. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 22:1)
  • ὑπόστηθι, ὦ Τίμων, δι’ ἐμέ, καὶ εἰ χαλεπὸν τοῦτο καὶ οὐκ οἰστόν ἐστιν, ὅπωσ οἱ κόλακεσ ἐκεῖνοι διαρραγῶσιν ὑπὸ τοῦ φθόνου· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 40:1)

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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