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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

  • πότερον, ὦ συκοφάντα καὶ ἐπίτριπτον κίναδοσ, κύριοσ ὁ νόμοσ ὅδε ἐστὶν ἢ οὐ κύριοσ; (Andocides, Speeches, 162:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἔστιν, ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἀλλ’ οὗτοσ συκοφαντῶν, ὅτι ἐπὶ τῷ θεωρικῷ τότ’ ὢν ἐπέδωκα τὰ χρήματα, ἐπῄνεσεν αὐτό φησίν ὑπεύθυνον ὄντα οὐ περὶ τούτων γ’ οὐδενὸσ ὧν ὑπεύθυνοσ ἦν, ἀλλ’ ἐφ’ οἷσ ἐπέδωκα, ὦ συκοφάντα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 162:1)

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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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