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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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ τὸ σκόλιον γράψασ, οὗ καὶ Πλάτων μέμνηται, τί καὶ οὗτόσ φησιν; (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 14:8)
  • ἐντεῦθεν ὀργῇ Περικλέησ οὑλύμπιοσ ἤστραπτ’ ἐβρόντα ξυνεκύκα τὴν Ἑλλάδα, ἐτίθει νόμουσ ὥσπερ σκόλια γεγραμμένουσ, ὡσ χρὴ Μεγαρέασ μήτε γῇ μήτ’ ἐν ἀγορᾷ μήτ’ ἐν θαλάττῃ μήτ’ ἐν οὐρανῷ μένειν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:17)
  • οὗτοσ δ’ ἀπὸ πάντων μὲν φέρει, πορνιδίων, σκολίων Μελήτου, Καρικῶν αὐλημάτων, θρήνων, χορειῶν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric 1:4)
  • τούτῳ τί λέξεισ σκόλιον; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:13)
  • ἐσ θοἰμάτιον τὸ σκόλιον ᾄδειν μοι δοκεῖ, δεῖσθαι δ’ ἐοίκεν οὐκ ὀλίγων χελιδόνων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric5)
  • εἰ κατὰ παίδων αὐτοῦ οὐ πιστεύει, κατὰ δὲ ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ σκολιόν τι ἐπενόησε, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 4:18)
  • περίελε σεαυτοῦ σκολιὸν στόμα καὶ ἄδικα χείλη μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἄπωσαι. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 4:23)
  • μετὰ δικαιοσύνησ πάντα τὰ ρήματα τοῦ στόματόσ μου, οὐδὲν ἐν αὐτοῖσ σκολιὸν οὐδὲ στραγγαλιῶδεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 8:8)
  • τὸ δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπόβλημα εἰσ οὐθὲν εὔχρηστον, ξύλον σκολιὸν καὶ ὄζοισ συμπεφηκόσ, λαβὼν ἔγλυψεν ἐν ἐπιμελείᾳ ἀργίασ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐμπειρίᾳ συνέσεωσ ἐτύπωσεν αὐτό, ἀπείκασεν αὐτὸ εἰκόνι ἀνθρώπου (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:13)
  • ΕΝ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐπάξει ὁ Θεὸσ τὴν μάχαιραν τὴν ἁγίαν καὶ τὴν μεγάλην καὶ τὴν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπὶ τὸν δράκοντα ὄφιν φεύγοντα, ἐπὶ τὸν δράκοντα ὄφιν σκολιὸν καὶ ἀνελεῖ τὸν δράκοντα. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 27:1)

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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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