δειλόν (deilon)

δειλόν is an Ancient Greek form of δειλός, meaning “cowardly, wretched”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.100: … ρ τοῖσδε τὰς καλὰς πράξεις συντελεῖσθαι. ἀνὰ λόγον δὲ καὶ τοῦ αἰσχροῦ εἶναι εἴδη τέτταρα, τό τʼ ἄδικον καὶ τὸ δειλὸν καὶ ἄκοσμον καὶ ἄφρον. λέγεσθαι δὲ τὸ καλὸν μοναχῶς μὲν τὸ ἐπαινετοὺς παρεχόμενον τοὺς ἔχοντας 〈ἢ〉 ἀγαθὸν ἐπα …

Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate 4: … αγῳδοῦ ἄλλων ἰατρὸς αὐτὸς ἕλκεσι βρύων ἂν ἀπαίδευτον εἴπῃς, ἐπίτεινε τὸ φιλομαθὲς ἐν σεαυτῷ καὶ φιλόπονον· ἂν δειλόν, ἔγειρε μᾶλλον τὸ θαρραλέον καὶ ἀνδρῶδες· κἂν ἀσελγῆ καὶ ἀκόλαστον, ἐξάλειφε τῆς ψυχῆς; εἴ τι λανθάνον ἐστὶ φ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.47: ἔτυχεν μέντοι τοῦτο ἐξ Ἀριστοβούλου γενόμενον· οὐ γὰρ ἀναμείνας οὐδὲν ὧν διελέχθη πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ Πομπήιος εἰς Δειλον πόλιν ἦλθεν κἀκεῖθεν εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἀπῆρεν.

All forms of δειλός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.