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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

  • ἐθέλω δέ σοι διακρῖναι καὶ διορίσαι τό τε τοῦ ἐπαινοῦντοσ ἔργον καὶ τὴν τοῦ κόλακοσ ὑπερβολήν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 20:2)
  • Θέωλοσ τὴν κεφαλὴν κόλακοσ ἔχει. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 1:37)
  • τὴν κεφαλὴν κόλακοσ ἔχει. (Plutarch, , chapter 1 4:5)
  • περὶ δὲ Νικησίου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου κόλακοσ Ἡγήσανδροσ τάδ’ ἱστορεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 2:6)
  • "Καύαροσ, φησίν, ὁ Γαλάτησ ὢν ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸσ ὑπὸ Σωστράτου τοῦ κόλακοσ διεστρέφετο, ὃσ ἦν Χαλκηδόνιοσ γένοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 60 2:1)

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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