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everlasting, perpetual, ἀ. κακόν Od. 12.118; χάρις Hdt. 7.178; ἀρετή, ἀρχά, S. Ph. 1420, OT 905 (lyr.); κλέος, μνήμη, B. 12.65, Lys. 2.81; συκοφάντης Hyp. Lyc. 2; ἀ. ὁ θάνατος ‘death that cannot die’, Amph. 8; of Nisus’ purple locks, ἀ. θρίξ on which life depended, A. Ch. 619.
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τῇ ᾗ φὴς σὺ σκληρότητι the harshness you speak of, Pl. Cra. 435a ; τὸν ἥμερον καρπόν . . , καὶ τὸν ὅσος ξύλινος (i.e. καὶ τὸν καρπὸν ὅσος ἂν ᾖ ξύλινος) Id. Criti. 115b ; τῶν ὅσοι ἂν . . ἀγαθοὶ κριθῶσιν Id. R. 469b ; ἐκ γῆς καὶ πυρὸς μείξαντες καὶ τῶν ὅσα πυρὶ καὶ γῇ κεράννυται Id. Prt. 320d, cf. Hyp. Lyc. 2 ; ταύτην τε τὴν αἰτίαν καὶ τὴν ὅθεν ἡ κίνησις Arist. Metaph. 987a8 ; τὸν ὃς ἔφη Lys. 23.8 : hence the relat., by attraction, freq. follows the case of the Art., τοῖς οἵοις ἡμῖν τε καὶ ὑμῖν, i.e. τοῖς οὖσιν οἷοι ἡμεῖς καὶ ὑμεῖς, X. HG 2.3.25, etc.
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. HG 2.3.38, 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.