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σόλοικος

σόλοικος, speaking incorrectly, using provincialisms

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σολοίκου Adjective: masculine genitive singular, Adjective: feminine genitive singular, Adjective: neuter genitive singular of σόλοικος

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σόλοικος, ον,
  • 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. Praec. 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.)

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