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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

  • οἱο͂ν εἰ εἰσ γάμον δαπανῶν τισ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, πλούσιοσ ὤν, δοκεῖ πρέπειν ἑαυτῷ τοιαύτην κατασκευὴν οἱο͂ν ἀγαθοδαιμονιστὰσ ἑστιῶντι, οὗτοσ μὲν μικροπρεπήσ, ὁ δὲ τοιούτουσ δεχόμενοσ ἐκείνωσ μὴ δόξησ χάριν μηδὲ δι’ ἐξουσίαν ὅμοιοσ τῷ σαλάκωνι, ὁ δὲ κατ’ ἀξίαν καὶ ὡσ ὁ λόγοσ, μεγαλοπρεπήσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 120:1)

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

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