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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

  • κόλακι καὶ παρασίτῳ καὶ δεομένῳ δύσοιστον ἐν χρείᾳ καὶ δυσκαρτέρητον ἑαυτὸν ἐγκωμιάζων πλούσιόσ τισ ἢ σατράπησ ἢ βασιλεύσ· (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 22 3:1)
  • διόπερ Μένανδροσ ἐν Κόλακι τὸν τοῖσ τετραδισταῖσ διακονούμενον μάγειρον ἐν τῇ τῆσ Πανδήμου Ἀφροδίτησ ἑορτῇ ποιεῖ ταυτὶ λέγοντα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 783)
  • Μένανδροσ δ’ ἐν Κόλακι τάσδε καταλέγει ἑταίρασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 52 1:3)
  • Μένανδροσ Κόλακι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 552)
  • τοιοῦδε πατρόσ, ὦ κάκιστα θηρίων, οὗ πόλλ’ ἐφ’ ἥβησ μνήματ’ ἀνδρείασ ὕπο κεῖται παρ’ οἴκοισ νυμφικοῖσ ἠσκημένα, οὐκ εἰσ φυγὴν κλίνοντοσ, οὐ δουλουμένου, οὐδὲ ψόφοισι τῶν ὀρειτρόφων βοτῶν πτήσσοντοσ, ἀλλ’ ακμαῖσιν ἐξειργασμένου ἃ νῦν ὑφ’ ὑμῶν λάμπρ’ ὑπορρυπαίνεται ψόφῳ νεώρει κόλακι ποιμένων ποθέν, ὃν δὴ φοβεῖσθε παῖδεσ ὣσ πρὶν εἰσιδεῖν, πλοῦτον δὲ χρυσόφαντον ἐξαφίετε, ὃν Φοῖβοσ ὑμῖν εἶπε κἀνεδέξατο, καὶ τὴν ἐλευθέρωσιν ἣν κατῄνεσεν ὑμῖν τε κἀμοί· (Sophocles, Ichneutae 12:4)
  • Μένανδροσ δὲ ἐν Κόλακί φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 44 1:3)
  • Μένανδροσ Κόλακί φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 625)

Synonyms

  1. a flatterer

    • θώψ (a flatterer, fawner, false friend)

Related

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

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