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σαλάκων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαλάκων σαλάκωνος

Structure: σαλακων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a swaggerer

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

  • ὁ δὲ πλοῦτοσ οἱο͂ν τιμή τισ τῆσ ἀξίασ τῶν ἄλλων, διὸ φαίνεται ὤνια ἅπαντα εἶναι αὐτοῦ, καὶ τρυφεροὶ καὶ σαλάκωνεσ, τρυφεροὶ μὲν διὰ τὴν τροφὴν καὶ τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ, σαλάκωνεσ δὲ καὶ σόλοικοι διὰ τὸ πάντασ εἰωθέναι διατρίβειν περὶ τὸ ἐρώμενον καὶ θαυμαζόμενον ὑπ’ αὐτῶν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 16 1:3)

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

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