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συκοφαντίης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκοφαντίης συκοφαντίου

Structure: συκοφαντι (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: from su_kofa/nths

Sense

  1. the Sycophant-wind

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

  • τούτων ὡσ ἐδόκει τῷ δήμῳ καλῶσ καὶ συμφερόντωσ πεπραγμένων, αἰτίαι νῦν καὶ προκλήσεισ καὶ συκοφαντίαι παρὰ Δημοσθένουσ ἥκουσιν, ἐπειδὴ οὗτοσ ἀποπέφανται εἴκοσι τάλαντα ἔχων χρυσίου· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 7:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν οὐ κατηγορίαισ οὐδὲ συκοφαντίαισ, ὃ πολιτικῷ ἡρ́μοζεν, ἀλλὰ τίσι ποτὲ λόγοισ Ἀθηναίουσ ἔπεισαν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 14:3)

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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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