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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

  • οὗτοσ δ’ ἀπὸ πάντων μὲν φέρει, πορνιδίων, σκολίων Μελήτου, Καρικῶν αὐλημάτων, θρήνων, χορειῶν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric 1:4)
  • ἐμέμνηντο δ’ οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ τῶν Ἀττικῶν ἐκείνων σκολίων ἅπερ καὶ αὐτὰ ἄξιὸν ἐστί σοι ἀπομνημονεῦσαι διά τε τὴν ἀρχαιότητα καὶ ἀφέλειαν τῶν ποιησάντων, καὶ τῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 491)
  • καὶ Πράξιλλα δ’ ἡ Σικυωνία ἐθαυμάζετο ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν σκολίων ποιήσει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 49 1:1)
  • τῶν οὖν δειπνοσοφιστῶν ὁ μέν τισ ἔλεγε τῶν σκολίων τόδε, ὁ δέ τισ τόδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 501)
  • "ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὸ ὑπ’ τοῦ πολυμαθεστάτου γραφὲν Ἀριστοτέλουσ εἰσ Ἑρμείαν τὸν Ἀταρνέα οὐ παιάν ἐστιν, ὡσ ὁ τὴν τῆσ ἀσεβείασ κατὰ τοῦ φιλοσόφου γραφὴν ἀπενεγκάμενοσ Δημόφιλοσ εἰσέδωκε,7 παρασκευασθεὶσ ὑπ’ Εὐρυμέδοντοσ, ὡσ ἀσεβοῦντοσ καὶ ᾄδοντοσ ἐν τοῖσ συσσιτίοισ ὁσημέραι εἰσ τὸν Ἑρμείαν παιᾶνα, ὅτι δὲ παιᾶνοσ οὐδεμίαν ἔμφασιν παρέχει τὸ ἆσμα, ἀλλὰ τῶν σκολίων ἕν τι καὶ αὐτὸ εἶδόσ ἐστιν ἐξ αὐτῆσ τῆσ λέξεωσ φανερὸν ὑμῖν ποιήσω· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 512)
  • Καὶ γὰρ ὅτε αὐτοῖσ δεινὸσ ἐπῆλθε θηρίων θυμὸσ δήγμασί τε σκολιῶν διεφθείροντο ὄφεων, οὐ μέχρι τέλουσ ἔμεινεν ἡ ὀργή σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:5)

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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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