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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

  • λύτρωσαί με ἀπὸ συκοφαντίασ ἀνθρώπων, καὶ φυλάξω τὰσ ἐντολάσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:134)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐπέστρεψα ἐγὼ καὶ εἶδον σὺν πάσασ τὰσ συκοφαντίασ τὰσ γενομένασ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. καὶ ἰδοὺ δάκρυον τῶν συκοφαντουμένων, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖσ παρακαλῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ χειρὸσ συκοφαντούντων αὐτοῖσ ἰσχύσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖσ παρακαλῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 4:1)
  • οὐ δίκαιόν ἐστι τὴν τοῦ κινδυνεύοντοσ σωτηρίαν ἐφόδιον γενέσθαι συκοφαντίασ τοῖσ πάντα τολμᾶν προῃρημένοισ, οὐδὲ τὴν ἐκ τῶν λόγων κατηγορίαν ἰσχυροτέραν ἡγεῖσθαι τῆσ ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀπολογίασ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 64:1)
  • ὡσ οὗτοσ ἤδη καικίασ καὶ συκοφαντίασ πνεῖ. (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme26)
  • οὗτοσ ἤτοι καικίασ ἢ συκοφαντίασ πνεῖ καὶ γάστριζε καὶ τοῖσ ἐντέροισ καὶ τοῖσ κόλοισ καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ γέλωτοσ εἰσ Γέλαν ἀφίξομαι καὶ τί δῆτα σοι δράσω, κακόδαιμον, ἀμφορεὺσ ἑξοστρακισθείσ; (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 1 5:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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