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συκοφάντης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκοφάντης συκοφάντου

Structure: συκοφαντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. a false accuser, slanderer, sycophant, a false adviser, one who informed against persons exporting figs, a fig-shewer, one who brings figs to light by shaking the tree, one who makes rich men yield up their fruit by false accusations).

Declension

First 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 συκοφαντῶν πένητα παροξύνει τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ τιμῶν αὐτὸν ἐλεεῖ πτωχόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:31)
  • ὁ συκοφαντῶν πένητα πολλὰ ποιεῖ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ. δίδωσι δὲ πλουσίῳ ἐπ̓ ἐλλάσσονι. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:18)
  • κἂν τοῦτο κερδήνῃσ ἄγων τὸ φορτίον, εὐδαιμονήσεισ συκοφαντῶν γ’ οὕνεκα. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 1 1:6)
  • Ἀλλὰ πάντωσ, ὦ Λυκῖνε, καὶ αὐτὸσ εὔξῃ τι ἤδη ποτέ, ὡσ ἂν μάθωμεν οἱα αἰτήσεισ ἀνεπίληπτα καὶ ἀνέγκλητα ὁ συκοφαντῶν τοὺσ ἄλλουσ. (Lucian, 78:1)
  • οὐχ οὗτοσ πρὶν ἐκτῖσαι τοῦτο, συκοφαντῶν τὸν ἐντυγχάνοντα ὑμῶν καὶ λέγων καὶ γράφων ἐν τῷ δήμῳ διατετέλεκε, καὶ καταφρονῶν ἁπασῶν τῶν τιμωριῶν αἳ κατὰ τῶν ἀδικούντων ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ εἰσὶ γεγραμμέναι; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 15:2)

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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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