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σκηνοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκηνοφύλαξ σκηνοφύλακος

Structure: σκηνοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a watcher in a tent

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

  • ἥ τε ἅμα σοι δύναμισ ἀποχρῶσα γένοιτ’ ἄν, ἄνδρεσ ὀκτακόσιοι πολλῶν ἀθληταὶ πολέμων, τεταραγμένουσ σκηνοφύλακασ ἀπροσδόκητοι προσπεσόντεσ τῷ τολμηρῷ ἑλεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 44 5:2)
  • ταχὺ δὲ ταῦτα διαπραξάμενοι οἱ Βιθυνοὶ καὶ τοὺσ σκηνοφύλακασ τῶν Ὀδρυσῶν Θρᾳκῶν ἀποκτείναντεσ, ἀπολαβόντεσ πάντα τὰ αἰχμάλωτα ἀπῆλθον· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a watcher in a tent

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

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