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σκυλάκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυλάκιον σκυλάκιου

Structure: σκυλακι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sku/lac의 지소사, Plat., Xen.

Sense

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

  • βαρεῖα γὰρ αὕτη καὶ ἀνιαρὰ συμφέρεσθαι, καὶ διώκουσά τε αἱρεῖ καὶ ἀποφεύγουσα ἀπολείπει εὐμαρῶσ, ὥστε ἀθυμεῖν ἀνάγκη τὸ σκυλάκιον ἐν ἑκατέρῳ μεῖον φερόμενον. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 12 4:2)
  • ἂν γὰρ ὗσ τεκοῦσα δελφάκιον ἢ κύων διασπαράξῃ σκυλάκιον, ἀθυμοῦσι καὶ ταράττονται καὶ θεοῖσ ἀποτρόπαια θύουσι καὶ τέρασ νομίζουσιν, ὡσ πᾶσι κατὰ φύσιν στέργειν τὰ τικτόμενα καὶ τρέφειν οὐκ ἀναιρεῖν προσῆκον. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 5 1:5)
  • Ταῦρον δ’ ἐσ τὸ Σκυλάκιον ὄροσ, ὃ πέραν ἐστὶ Ταυρομενίου, περιπλεῖν ἐκ Τάραντοσ ἐκέλευε. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 7:2)
  • καὶ ὁ Καῖσαρ ὧδε ἔχοντι ἐξ Ἱππωνείου ἐπιδραμὼν ἐπιφαίνεται κατὰ τὸ Σκυλάκιον, καὶ τὴν εὐταξίαν ἀποδεξάμενοσ ἐπανῆλθεν ἐσ τὸ Ἱππώνειον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 7:5)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταύτην Σκυλλήτιον ἄποικοσ Ἀθηναίων τῶν μετὰ Μενεσθέωσ νῦν δὲ Σκυλάκιον καλεῖται, Κροτωνιατῶν δ’ ἐχόντων Διονύσιοσ Λοκροῖσ προσώρισεν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 20:8)

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

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