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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

  • ἀρξάμενοσ θ’ οὕτωσ ἑξῆσ φησιν ἀλλὰ θαυμάζω τί με λεξοῦντι Ἰσθμοῦ δεσπόται τοιάνδε μελίφρονοσ ἀρχὰν εὑρόμενον σκολιοῦ, ξυνάορον ξυναῖσ γυναιξί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 33 2:4)
  • οἰόμαι γάρ σε ἀκηκοέναι ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ ᾀδόντων ἀνθρώπων τοῦτο τὸ σκολιόν, ἐν ᾧ καταριθμοῦνται ᾄδοντεσ ὅτι ὑγιαίνειν μὲν ἄριστόν ἐστιν, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον καλὸν γενέσθαι, τρίτον δέ, ὥσ φησιν ὁ ποιητὴσ τοῦ σκολιοῦ, τὸ πλουτεῖν ἀδόλωσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 28:9)

Related

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

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