Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σίνις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίνις σίνιδος

Structure: σινιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: si/nomai

Sense

  1. a ravager, plunderer, destroying
  2. the destroyer

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

  • ἔπειτα τούτου μὲν ἔργον ἐστὶ τὸ μέγιστον ἀνελεῖν ἕνα τὸν Ἄλβησ τύραννον, ἐκείνου δὲ πάρεργα καὶ προάγωνεσ ἦσαν ὁ Σκείρων, ὁ Σίνισ, ὁ Προκρούστησ, ὁ Κορυνήτησ, οὓσ ἀναιρῶν καὶ κολάζων ἀπήλαττε τὴν Ἑλλάδα δεινῶν τυράννων πρὶν ὅστισ ἐστὶ γινώσκειν τοὺσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ σῳζομένουσ, καὶ τῷ μὲν παρῆν ἀπραγμόνωσ κομίζεσθαι διὰ θαλάττησ ἀδικουμένῳ μηδὲν ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν, Ῥωμύλῳ δ’ οὐ παρῆν μὴ πράγματα ἔχειν Ἀμουλίου ζῶντοσ, μέγα δὲ τούτου τεκμήριον ὁ μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν αὐτὸσ ἀδικούμενοσ ὡρ́μησεν ὑπὲρ ἄλλων ἐπὶ τοὺσ πονηρούσ, οἱ δ’ ὅσον αὐτοὶ κακῶσ οὐκ ἔπασχον ὑπὸ τοῦ τυράννου, περιεώρων ἀδικοῦντα πάντασ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 1 2:1)
  • μία μὲν οὖν αὕτη αἰτία, μία δὲ τὸ χρῆσθαι γλώτταισ, οἱο͂ν Λυκόφρων Ξέρξην "πέλωρον ἄνδρα" , καὶ Σκίρων "σίνισ ἀνήρ" , καὶ Ἀλκιδάμασ "ἄθυρμα τῇ ποιήσει" , καὶ "τὴν τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀτασθαλίαν" , καὶ "ἀκράτῳ τῆσ διανοίασ ὀργῇ τεθηγμένον" . (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 3 2:1)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ ξένουσ, ἐξ οὗ ὅ τε Σίνισ καὶ ὁ Σκείρων καὶ ὁ Προκρούστησ ἀπέθανον, οὐδεὶσ ἔτι ἀδικεῖ· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 15:3)
  • ἦ γάρ σ1’ ὑπνώοντα σίνισ λαθρηδὸν ἐπελθὼν ἔκτεινεν λαιμῷ ῥίμφα καθεὶσ ὄνυχα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2022)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, ἔνθα ὁ λῃστὴσ Σίνισ λαμβανόμενοσ πιτύων ἦγεν ἐσ τὸ κάτω σφᾶσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. the destroyer

Related

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

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