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σόλοικος

soloikos

speaking incorrectly, using broken Greek

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

σόλοικος · soloikos — LSJ

speaking incorrectly, using broken Greek, foreigners

speaking incorrectly, using broken Greek, φθόγγος Anacr. 79; οἱ σόλοικοι foreigners, Hippon. 46; βάρβαρον ἢ σ. τι M.Ant. 1.10.

II erring against good manners, awkward, in bad taste, clumsy, absurd, rudely

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.)

In the wild

σόλοικοι · soloikoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
σολοίκως · soloikōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5600)
σόλοικόν · soloikon Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 41)
σολοικότερος · soloikoteros Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.21 (DIORISIS sentence 4370)

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