σόλοικος

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   A speaking incorrectly, using broken Greek, φθόγγος Anacr.79; οἱ σόλοικοι foreigners, Hippon.46; βάρβαρον ἢ σ. τι M.Ant. 1.10.    II metaph., erring against good manners, awkward, in bad taste, τῷ τρόπῳ X.Cyr.8.3.21 (Comp.), cf. Arist.Rh.1391a4, Cic.Att. 14.6.2, Plu.2.817b; σολοικότερον, c. inf., it would be clumsy, absurd, Hp.Fract.15. Adv. -κως rudely, σ. κεκομμένοι, of coins, Zeno Stoic. 1.23. (Said to come from the corruption of the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of Σόλοι in Cilicia, Str.14.2.28, D.L.1.51.)