Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σύκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύκινος σύκινη σύκινον

Structure: συκιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sukh=

Sense

  1. of the fig-tree, fig, inutile lignum)
  2. worthless, good-for-nothing fellows, a false, treacherous

Examples

  • "πότερον οὖν πρέπει," φήσει, "ὅταν τισ τὴν χύτραν ἣν ἄρτι ἐλέγομεν, τὴν καλήν, ἕψῃ ἔτνουσ καλοῦ μεστήν, χρυσῆ τορύνη αὐτῇ ἢ συκίνη; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 58:5)
  • "εἰ γὰρ δὴ πρέπει γε μᾶλλον ἡ συκίνη τῆσ χρυσῆσ," φήσει ὁ ἄνθρωποσ, "ἄλλο τι καὶ καλλίων ἂν εἰή, ἐπειδήπερ τὸ πρέπον, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, κάλλιον ὡμολόγησασ εἶναι τοῦ μὴ πρέποντοσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 62:2)

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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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