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συφορβός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συφορβός συφορβοῦ

Structure: συφορβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: su=s, fe/rbw

Sense

  1. a swineherd

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

  • Φέρε οὖν δοκεῖ σοι ἀγαθὸσ αὐλητὴσ ἥδεσθαι ἐπὶ τῇ τέχνῃ καὶ μέγα φρονεῖν ὑπὸ ἀμούσων καὶ ἀτέχνων ἐπαινούμενοσ, κἂν εἰ περιστάντεσ αὐτὸν παῖδεσ συφορβοὶ καὶ ποιμένεσ θαυμάζοιεν καὶ κροτοῖεν, ἐπαίρεσθαι ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ τούτῳ καὶ τοῦ παντὸσ ἄξιον ἡγεῖσθαι τὸν παῤ ἐκείνων ἔπαινον; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 31:3)

Synonyms

  1. a swineherd

Related

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

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