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σκόλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκόλιον σκόλιου

Structure: σκολι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: neut. of skolio/s

Sense

  1. a song which went round at banquets, zigzag course -

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

  • βλάψει δ’ ὁ κακὸσ τὸν ἀρείονα φῶτα μύθοισιν σκολιοῖσ ἐνέπων, ἐπὶ δ’ ὁρ́κον ὀμεῖται. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 22:14)
  • ἔν τε γὰρ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ οἷσ ἔπραττον διεσφάλλοντο, καὶ τειχίσαντεσ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ Λειψύδριον τὸ ὑπὲρ Πάρνηθοσ, εἰσ ὃ συνεξῆλθόν τινεσ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ἄστεωσ, ἐξεπολιορκήθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν τυράννων, ὅθεν ὕστερον μετὰ ταύτην τὴν συμφορὰν ᾖδον ἐν τοῖσ σκολιοῖσ αἰεί· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 19 3:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ πρότερον τῶν Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν Κήδων ἐπέθετο τοῖσ τυράννοισ, διὸ καὶ ᾖδον καὶ εἰσ τοῦτον ἐν τοῖσ σκολιοῖσ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 20 5:1)
  • ἃ γὰρ πράττεισ πράγματα πεπιστευμένοσ, οὐχ ἁπλοῖσ ἤθεσιν οὐδὲ χρηστοῖσ ὥσπερ εὐφυέσιν ὀργάνοισ ἀλλὰ καρχάροισ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ σκολιοῖσ διακονεῖται. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 1:1)
  • ἃ γὰρ πράττεισ πράγματα πεπιστευμένοσ, οὐχ ἁπλοῖσ ἤθεσιν οὐδὲ χρηστοῖσ ὥσπερ εὐφυέσιν ὀργάνοισ ἀλλὰ καρχάροισ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ σκολιοῖσ διακονεῖται. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 3:1)

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

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