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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

  • οὕτωσ ἐκαλεῖτο τὸ ποτήριον, φησὶ Τρύφων ἐν τοῖσ Ὀνοματικοῖσ, τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ σκολίῳ διδόμενον, ὡσ Ἀντιφάνησ παρίστησιν ἐν Διπλασίοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1102)
  • κἀγὼ σκολιῷ σκίπωνι χερὸσ διερειδομένα σπεύσω βραδύπουν ἤλυσιν ἄρθρων προτιθεῖσα. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests3)
  • ‐ Φαύλῳ γὰρ ἄν, ὦ ἄριστε, κανόνι καὶ παντάπασι σκολιῷ μὰ Δί̓ οὐ μίαν τινὰ καμπὴν ἔχοντι, μυρίασ δὲ καὶ πάσασ ὑπεναντίασ, τὰ πράγματα σταθμῷτο τῇ δόξῃ πειρώμενοσ ἀπευθύνειν αὐτά. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:1)
  • πρῶτα μὲν σκολιῷ σιδήρῳ διὰ τῶν μυξωτήρων ἐξάγουσι τὸν ἐγκέφαλον, τὰ μὲν αὐτοῦ οὕτω ἐξάγοντεσ, τὰ δὲ ἐγχέοντεσ φάρμακα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 86 4:2)
  • ποταμῶν δὲ ὁπόσουσ ἴσμεν Μαίανδροσ μὲν σκολιῷ μάλιστα κάτεισι τῷ ῥεύματι, ἔσ τε τὸ ἄνω καμπὰσ καὶ αὖθισ ἐπιστροφὰσ παρεχόμενοσ πλείστασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 41 5:2)

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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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