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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

  • νομοφύλακι γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐχρῆτο ὁ Μίνωσ κατὰ τὸ ἄστυ, τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἄλλην Κρήτην τῷ Τάλῳ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 46:3)
  • πῶσ οὖν καὶ τί παραινοίησ ἂν τῷ νομοφύλακι; (Plato, Laws, book 7 144:3)
  • μεῖζον δή τι νομοθέτῃ τε καὶ νομοφύλακι, καὶ ὃσ ἀρετῇ πάντων διαφέρειν οἰέται καὶ νικητήρια τούτων αὐτῶν εἴληφεν, ἢ ταῦτα αὐτὰ περὶ ὧν νῦν λέγομεν, ἀνδρεία, σωφροσύνη, δικαιοσύνη, φρόνησισ; (Plato, Laws, book 12 158:6)
  • τῷ δὴ νομοφύλακί τε καὶ παιδευτῇ παράδειγμα οὐκ ἂν ἔχοιμι, ὡσ οἶμαι, τούτου βέλτιον φράζειν, ἢ ταῦτά τε διδάσκειν παρακελεύεσθαι τοῖσι διδασκάλοισ τοὺσ παῖδασ, τά τε τούτων ἐχόμενα καὶ ὅμοια, ἂν ἄρα που περιτυγχάνῃ ποιητῶν τε ποιήματα διεξιὼν καὶ γεγραμμένα καταλογάδην ἢ καὶ ψιλῶσ οὕτωσ ἄνευ τοῦ γεγράφθαι λεγόμενα, ἀδελφά που τούτων τῶν λόγων, μὴ μεθιέναι τρόπῳ μηδενί, γράφεσθαι δέ· (Plato, Laws, book 7 146:2)

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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