συκοφάντης: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=σῡκο-[[φάντης]], ου, ὁ, [[φαίνω]]<br />a false [[accuser]], [[slanderer]], Ar., etc.; ([[never]] used in the [[modern]] [[sense]] of [[sycophant]], i. e. [[κόλαξ]]):—[[generally]], a false [[adviser]], Dem. (Commonly [[derived]] from [[σῦκον]], [[φαίνω]], one who informed [[against]] persons exporting figs from [[Attica]]: [[better]] perh. a [[fig]]-[[shower]], i. e. one who brings figs to [[light]] by [[shaking]] the [[tree]] (the figs having been [[hidden]] in the [[thick]] [[foliage]]); and then, metaph., one who makes [[rich]] men [[yield]] up [[their]] [[fruit]] by false accusations).