συκοφαντῶν (sykophanton)

συκοφαντῶν is an Ancient Greek form of συκοφαντέω, meaning “slander, accuse falsely”.

It can also be a form of συκοφάντης, “common informer, voluntary denouncer”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 26.1: … ελευτῆς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἴρηκε. μετὰ γὰρ τὴν Θεμιστοκλέους φυγήν φησιν ὥσπερ ἐξυβρίσαντα τὸν δῆμον ἀναφῦσαι πλῆθος συκοφαντῶν, οἳ τοὺς ἀρίστους καὶ δυνατωτάτους ἄνδρας διώκοντες ὑπέβαλλον τῷ φθόνῳ τῶν πολλῶν ἐπαιρομένων ὑπʼ εὐτυχίας κα …

All forms of συκοφαντέω (conjugation 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.