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συκοφαντικός

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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523
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Transliteration A: sykophantikós Transliteration B: sykophantikos Transliteration C: sykofantikos Beta Code: sukofantiko/s

English (LSJ)

ή, όν,

   A typical of a συκοφάντης, blackmailing, δίκη D.37.3 (Comp.); skilled as an 'agent provocateur', Philostr.VA7.27: metaph., σ. πνεύματα,= συκοφαντίας, Lib.Or.13.16. Adv. -κῶς Isoc.15.308, Luc.Hist.Conscr.10.    II sophistical, λόγοι Phld.Oec. p.65J., cf. Rh.1.119S.

German (Pape)

[Seite 974] ή, όν, sykophantisch, verleumderisch; Dem. 37, 3, im compar.; τὴν φύσιν συκοφαντικός, Luc. Deor. concil. 2; auch adv., οἱ συκοφαντικῶς ἀκροασόμενοι, hist. conscr. 10.