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συκοφαντιά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκοφαντιά

Structure: συκοφαντι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from su_kofa/nths

Sense

  1. false accusation, slander, calumny
  2. a sophism

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

  • Ἐὰν συκοφαντίαν πένητοσ καὶ ἁρπαγὴν κρίματοσ καὶ δικαιοσύνησ ἴδῃσ ἐν χώρᾳ, μὴ θαυμάσῃσ ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι. ὅτι ὑψηλὸσ ἐπάνω ὑψηλοῦ φυλάξαι, καὶ ὑψηλοὶ ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 5:7)
  • Ἀπολλόδωροσ δ’ οὑτοσὶ παρεληλυθότων ἐτῶν πλέον ἢ εἴκοσιν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ συκοφαντίαν ἀξιοῖ περὶ πλείονοσ ὑμᾶσ ποιήσασθαι τῶν νόμων, καθ’ οὓσ ὀμωμοκότεσ δικάζετε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 42:1)
  • τὴν μὲν οὖν συκοφαντίαν τὴν τούτων, καὶ μεθ’ ὅσησ ἐπιβουλῆσ ἐληλύθασιν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν πεπραγμένων εἴσεσθε. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἁπλῶσ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐριστικῶν τὸ κατὰ τί καὶ πρὸσ τί καὶ πῇ οὐ προστιθέμενα ποιεῖ τὴν συκοφαντίαν, καὶ ἐνταῦθα παρὰ τὸ εἰκὸσ εἶναι μὴ ἁπλῶσ ἀλλὰ τὶ εἰκόσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 24 10:4)
  • ὥσθ’ ὑμῖν προσήκει μὴ ἀποδέχεσθαι αὐτοῦ διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀξιοῦντοσ βασανισθῆναι τὴν ἄνθρωπον, ὅτι αὐτὴν ἐλευθέραν ἐσκήπτετο εἶναι, ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον συκοφαντίαν καταγιγνώσκειν, ὅτι παραλιπὼν ἔλεγχον οὕτωσ ἀκριβῆ ἐξαπατήσειν ὑμᾶσ ῥᾳδίωσ ᾠήθη. (Lysias, Speeches, 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. false accusation

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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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