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κολαστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολαστήριον κολαστήριου

Structure: κολαστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kola/zw

Sense

  1. a house of correction

Declension

Second 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

  • εἰ δέ τινεσ Σωκράτην νομίζουσιν, ὡσ ἔνιοι γράφουσί τε καὶ λέγουσι περὶ αὐτοῦ τεκμαιρόμενοι, προτρέψασθαι μὲν ἀνθρώπουσ ἐπ’ ἀρετὴν κράτιστον γεγονέναι, προαγαγεῖν δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν οὐχ ἱκανόν, σκεψάμενοι μὴ μόνον ἃ ἐκεῖνοσ κολαστηρίου ἕνεκα τοὺσ πάντ’ οἰομένουσ εἰδέναι ἐρωτῶν ἤλεγχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἃ λέγων συνημέρευε τοῖσ συνδιατρίβουσι, δοκιμαζόντων εἰ ἱκανὸσ ἦν βελτίουσ ποιεῖν τοὺσ συνόντασ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a house of correction

Related

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

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