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σκυτεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτεύς σκυτέως

Structure: σκυτευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sku=tos

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • διὰ χρόνου γὰρ ἀφικόμενοσ ὁ Ἱππίασ Ἀθήναζε παρεγένετο τῷ Σωκράτει λέγοντι πρόσ τινασ, ὡσ θαυμαστὸν εἰή τό, εἰ μέν τισ βούλοιτο σκυτέα διδάξασθαί τινα ἢ τέκτονα ἢ χαλκέα ἢ ἱππέα, μὴ ἀπορεῖν ὅποι ἂν πέμψασ τούτου τύχοι, φασὶ δέ τινεσ καὶ ἵππον καὶ βοῦν τῷ βουλομένῳ δικαίουσ ποιήσασθαι πάντα μεστὰ εἶναι τῶν διδαξόντων· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 4 6:2)
  • εἶχέν τινα Ἐπαφρόδιτοσ σκυτέα, ὃν διὰ τὸ ἄχρηστον εἶναι ἐπώλησεν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 19:1)
  • οὐδὲ σύ, εἰ τούτου ἕνεκα ἐλήλυθασ πρὸσ ἐμέ, ὡσ πρὸσ φιλόσοφον ἐλήλυθασ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ πρὸσ λαχανοπώλην, ἀλλ’ ὡσ πρὸσ σκυτέα. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 10:4)
  • τὸν σκυτέα γὰρ οὐ θαυμάζω. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 45:2)
  • καὶ λοιπὸν μέμνησο, ὅτι πρὸσ σκυτέα ἀφῖξαι, πρὸσ λαχανοπώλην, οὐδενὸσ μεγάλου ἢ σεμνοῦ ἔχοντα τὴν ἐξουσίαν, κἂν αὐτὸ πολλοῦ πωλῇ. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 48:1)

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

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