κόλακας (kolakas)

κόλακας is an Ancient Greek form of κόλαξ, meaning “flatterer, toady”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.4: … ηλίκον κίνδυνον ὀβολοῦ διαφυγεῖν ἴσχυες. κρεῖττον ἔλεγε, καθά φησιν Ἑκάτων ἐν ταῖς Χρείαις, εἰς κόρακας ἢ εἰς κόλακας ἐμπεσεῖν· οἱ μὲν γὰρ νεκρούς, οἱ δὲ ζῶντας ἐσθίουσιν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 7.63.3: … ἑαυτοῦ φίλοις ἅπασαν τὴν λείαν· τοῦτο δὴ τυραννίδος τεκμήριον εἶναι φημὶ τὸ ἔργον· πῶς γὰρ οὔ; ὃς τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ κόλακάς τε καὶ σωματοφύλακας καὶ τῆς μελλούσης τυραννίδος συνεργοὺς ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων εὐηργέτει χρημάτων·

All forms of κόλαξ (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.