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μαλθακόν (malthakon)

μαλθακόν is an Ancient Greek form of μαλθακός, meaning “soft, gentle; weak”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 29.24: κἤμε μάλθακον ἐξ ἐπόησε σιδαρίω.

Euripides, Suppliants 883: Μουσῶν τραπέσθαι πρὸς τὸ μαλθακὸν βίου,

Euripides, Helen 508: ἢν δʼ ἐνδιδῷ τι μαλθακόν, τὰ πρόσφορα

All forms of μαλθακός (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.