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νομοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νομοφύλαξ νομοφύλακος

Structure: νομοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a guardian of the laws

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

  • νομίσαι οὖν ἐκέλευον, ἔφη, τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ αὐτὴν νομοφύλακα τῶν ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ εἶναι, καὶ ἐξετάζειν δέ, ὅταν δόξῃ αὐτῇ, τὰ σκεύη, ὥσπερ ὁ φρούραρχοσ τὰσ φυλακὰσ ἐξετάζει, καὶ δοκιμάζειν εἰ καλῶσ ἕκαστον ἔχει, ὥσπερ ἡ βουλὴ ἵππουσ καὶ ἱππέασ δοκιμάζει, καὶ ἐπαινεῖν δὲ καὶ τιμᾶν ὥσπερ βασίλισσαν τὸν ἄξιον ἀπὸ τῆσ παρούσασ δυνάμεωσ, καὶ λοιδορεῖν καὶ κολάζειν τὸν τούτων δεόμενον. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 9 17:1)
  • τίνειν αὐτὸν τῷ παιδί, τιμάτω τὸ δικαστήριον, ἐὰν δὲ ἀδικίᾳ, πρὸσ τῷ τιμήματι, τῆσ ἀρχῆσ τῶν νομοφυλάκων ἀφιστάσθω, τὸ δὲ κοινὸν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἕτερον νομοφύλακα ἀντὶ τούτου καθιστάτω τῇ χώρᾳ καὶ τῇ πόλει. (Plato, Laws, book 11 102:1)
  • ὑμᾶσ δὲ ἡμῖν βουλόμεθα συγγνώμονάσ τε ἅμα καὶ μαθητὰσ γίγνεσθαι, βλέποντασ πρὸσ ταῦτα εἰσ ἅπερ ἡμεῖσ συνεχωρήσαμεν ἀλλήλοισ τὸν νομοφύλακά τε καὶ νομοθέτην δεῖν βλέπειν. (Plato, Laws, book 6 134:3)

Synonyms

  1. a guardian of the laws

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

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