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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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἔνεστι συκοφάντου δήγματοσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:27)
  • χωρὶσ τοίνυν τούτων Λεωκράτησ ἀναβοήσεται αὐτίκα ὡσ ἰδιώτησ ὤν, καὶ ὑπὸ τῆσ τοῦ ῥήτοροσ καὶ συκοφάντου δεινότητοσ ἀναρπαζόμενοσ· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 45:1)
  • Ἀριστογείτονοσ δὲ τοῦ συκοφάντου πολεμικοῦ μὲν ὄντοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ καὶ παροξύνοντοσ ἐπὶ τὰσ πράξεισ τὸν δῆμον, ἐν δὲ τῷ καταλόγῳ προσελθόντοσ ἐπὶ βακτηρίᾳ τὼ σκέλη καταδεδεμένου, πόρρωθεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματοσ ἰδὼν ὁ Φωκίων ἀνέκραγε· (Plutarch, chapter 10 2:1)
  • Ἀριστογείτονοσ δὲ τοῦ συκοφάντου μετὰ τὴν καταδίκην πέμψαντοσ καὶ δεηθέντοσ ἐλθεῖν πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὑπακούσασ ἐβάδιζεν εἰσ τὸ δεσμωτήριον· (Plutarch, chapter 10 5:2)
  • πλὴν εἰ συκοφάντου τισ καὶ πονηροῦ σπέρμα καὶ ῥίζαν, ὡσπερανεὶ γεωργόσ, οἰέται δεῖν ὑπάρχειν τῇ πόλει. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 56:4)

Related

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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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