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νυκτοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτοφύλαξ νυκτοφύλακος

Structure: νυκτοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a night-watcher, warder

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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ λογοποιεῖ καὶ χρησμούσ τινασ διέξεισιν παλαιοὺσ δή, ὡσ χρεὼν εἰή ^ δαίμονα νυκτοφύλακα γενέσθαι αὐτόν, καὶ δῆλόσ ἐστι βωμῶν ἤδη ἐπιθυμῶν καὶ χρυσοῦσ ἀναστήσεσθαι ἐλπίζων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:85)
  • τόν τε νυκτοφύλακα αὐτοῦ Μάρσον οὐ δυνηθεὶσ διαφθεῖραι διέφθειρε τοὺσ ἡμεροφυλακοῦντασ αὐτῷ λοχαγοὺσ καὶ ἀναπαυομένου τοῦ Μάρσου μεθ’ ἡμέραν ἐσῆλθεν, ὑπανοιχθεισῶν αὐτῷ πυλίδων κατὰ μέρη πολλῶν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 8 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a night-watcher

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

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