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σκίρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκίρον σκίρου

Structure: σκιρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the white sunshade

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐπὶ Σκίρῳ, τοῦ παλαιοτάτου τῶν σπόρων ὑπόμνημα, δεύτερον ἐν τῇ Ρ̓αρίᾳ, τρίτον ὑπὸ πόλιν τὸν καλούμενον Βουζύγιον. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 42 1:1)
  • οὗτοσ ἐπειδὴ ἐκπλεῖν ἔμελλεν εἰσ τὴν Λιβύην, διαλογισάμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν ἐναντίον Ἀρχεβιάδου καὶ Φρασίου προσέταξεν τὸ ἀργύριον ὃ κατέλειπεν ἦν δὲ τοῦτο ἑκκαίδεκα μναῖ καὶ τετταράκοντα δραχμαί, ὡσ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν πάνυ ἀκριβῶσ ἐπιδείξω Κηφισιάδῃ ἀποδοῦναι, λέγων ὅτι κοινωνὸσ εἰή αὑτοῦ ὁ Κηφισιάδησ οὗτοσ, οἰκήτωρ μὲν ὢν ἐν Σκίρῳ, ἐν δὲ τῷ παρόντι ἐφ’ ἑτέρᾳ ἀποδημῶν ἐμπορίᾳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 5:2)
  • προξενῶν μὲν γὰρ τυγχάνω τῶν Ἡρακλεωτῶν, βούλοιο δ’ ἄν, ὡσ οἶμαι ἐγώ, ἐμὲ μᾶλλον τὸ ἀργύριον λαβεῖν ἢ τὸν μέτοικον ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἐν Σκίρῳ κατοικοῦντα καὶ οὐδενὸσ ἄξιον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 12:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ Σκιρὰσ καὶ Κύχρεια ἀπό τινων ἡρώων, ἀφ’ οὗ μὲν Ἀθηνᾶ τε λέγεται Σκιρὰσ καὶ τόποσ Σκίρα ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ ἐπὶ Σκίρῳ ἱεροποιία τισ καὶ ὁ μὴν ὁ Σκιροφοριών, ἀφ’ οὗ δὲ καὶ Κυχρείδησ ὄφισ, ὅν φησιν Ἡσίοδοσ τραφέντα ὑπὸ Κυχρέωσ ἐξελαθῆναι ὑπὸ Εὐρυλόχου λυμαινόμενον τὴν νῆσον, ὑποδέξασθαι δὲ αὐτὸν τὴν Δήμητρα εἰσ Ἐλευσῖνα καὶ γενέσθαι ταύτησ ἀμφίπολον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 1 12:5)

Derived

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

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