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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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ θορύβου τε ᾔσθετο καὶ σημαινόντων ἀλλήλοισ τῶν περὶ Σεύθην, κατέμαθεν ὅτι τούτου ἕνεκα τὰ πυρὰ κεκαυμένα εἰή τῷ Σεύθῃ πρὸ τῶν νυκτοφυλάκων, ὅπωσ οἱ μὲν φύλακεσ μὴ ὁρῷντο ἐν τῷ σκότει ὄντεσ μήτε ὁπόσοι μήτε ὅπου εἰε͂ν, οἱ δὲ προσιόντεσ μὴ λανθάνοιεν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ φῶσ καταφανεῖσ εἰε͂ν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 24:3)
  • καὶ ἐξ ἐκεινου φασὶ παραμεῖναι τὸ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ τῶν νυκτοφυλάκων ἔθοσ τε καὶ εἶδοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 13 10:4)
  • Ἀνεθάρσει δὲ ἤδη καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ῥώμην Σαβῖνοσ, ὡσ πλησίον Ἀντώνιοσ ὢν ἀπηγγέλλετο, καὶ συναθροίσασ τὰ τῶν νυκτοφυλάκων στρατιωτῶν τάγματα νύκτωρ καταλαμβάνει τὸ Καπετώλιον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 733:1)

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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