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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

  • ὅμωσ, ὦ τέκνον, εἰπὲ καὶ μὴ παράσχῃσ τῷ συκοφάντῃ τούτῳ ἀφορμὰσ διαβάλλειν καὶ χλευάζειν τὰ σὰ ὡσ ἐπὶ τρίποδι καὶ ὕδατι καὶ λιβανωτῷ κείμενα, ὡσ, εἰ μὴ ἔχοισ ταῦτα, στερησόμενόν σε τῆσ τέχνησ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 30:6)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ συκοφάντῃ τοὔνομα γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 16 2:2)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τῷ συκοφάντῃ τοὔνομα γεγενῆσθαι· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 15 11:2)
  • "συκοφάντῃ δὲ οὐδὲ ἂν θέλητε. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 14 3:3)
  • ἐῶ τἄλλα, ἀλλὰ νυνὶ τήμερον ἐγὼ μὲν ὑπὲρ τοῦ στεφανωθῆναι δοκιμάζομαι, τὸ δὲ μηδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἀδικεῖν ἀνωμολόγημαι, σοὶ δὲ συκοφάντῃ μὲν εἶναι δοκεῖν ὑπάρχει, κινδυνεύεισ δ’ εἴτε δεῖ σ’ ἔτι τοῦτο ποιεῖν, εἴτ’ ἤδη πεπαῦσθαι μὴ μεταλαβόντα τὸ πέμπτον μέροσ τῶν ψήφων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 379:1)
  • ὃσ οὕτωσ ἐπίβουλόσ ἐστιν, ὥστε καὶ τὴν δίαιταν ταύτην ἐπιτρέπειν με προὐκαλεῖτο, οὐχ ὅπωσ ἀπαλλαγῇ πρόσ με, ἀλλ’ ἵνα, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον ἕνδεκα ἔτη διήγαγε κακουργῶν, οὕτωσ καὶ νῦν τὰ ἀποδιαιτηθέντα μου λύσασ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ με συκοφαντῇ καὶ τὴν δίκην ταύτην ἐκκρούῃ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 52:1)

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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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