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1 συκοφάντης
A common informer, voluntary denouncer (there being no Public Prosecutor), e.g. of contraband imports, καὶ σ. εἴ τις ἦν ὠνείδισας; did you dare to reproach a ς.? Ar.Ach. 559, cf. 725, 825; of unlawful possession, Id.Pl. 873, 879, 885; of disaffection to Athens, Isoc.15.313 (cf. 316-18); κλητήρ εἰμι νησιωτικὸς καὶ ς. Ar.Av. 1423; the ς. became notorious as pettifoggers, Lycurg.31 (cf. Ar.Ach. 920 -4), D.20.62, vexatious prosecutors of innocent persons esp. if rich, Lys.25.3, D.57.34, and blackmailers, Antipho 5.78,80, Lys.7.20, And.1.105, D.21.103, 58.27, Aeschin.2.5, 3.256, Hyp.Lyc.2, Theopomp. Hist. 107, 267, Luc.Tim.36; having thus abused their legal powers, they were treated as criminals, [οἱ τριάκοντα] τοὺς ς... ἀνῄρουν Arist.Ath.35.3
, cf. X.HG2.3.38, Isoc.15.313, 18.3;συκοφαντῶν προβολαί Arist.Ath.43.5
, cf. Aeschin.2.145; they were numerous in democracies, Thphr.Char.26.5; χρῆν.. ἐγγίγνεσθαι.. πάσῃ δημοκρατίᾳ ς. Plu.Tim.37; δημαγωγῶν πλῆθος καὶ ς. at Syracuse, D.S.11.87; rarer in oligarchies, e.g. Boeotia, Ar.Ach. 904; βασιλεὺς ἐνδεὴς προσόδων μέγας ς. a great extortioner, LXX Pr.28.16.2 in New Com., professional swindler or confidential agent, πράττει δ' ὁ κόλαξ ἄριστα πάντων, δεύτερα ὁ ς. Men.223.17, cf. Georg. Fr.1, Philippid.29: so in Lat. sycophanta, Plaut.Poen.1032, Trin. 815, Ter.Andr.815; humbug, Favorin. ap. Gell.14.1.32.3 = Lat. delator,ὁ πικρὸς σ. Ἰσίδωρος Ph.2.597
, cf. OGI669.41 (Egypt, i A.D.), Cod.Just.1.4.34.17, al. (From σῦκον φαίνειν, orig. used of denouncers of the attempted export of figs from Athens, acc. to Ister 35, Plu. Sol.24, 2.523b; orig. of citizens entrusted with the collection of figs as part of the public revenues of Athens and the denouncing of tax-evaders, acc. to Philomnest.1; of denouncers of figs which had been stolen from the sacred fig-trees during a famine and had become cheap, the famine having passed, Sch.Ar.Pl.31, cf. Fest. p.393 L.; these and modern explanations are mere guesses; the word first in Ar. but implied by συκοπέδιλος.)Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > συκοφάντης
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