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Φάυλος (Phaulos)

Φάυλος means “Phaulos — cheap, easy, slight, paltry; easy, slight; slight matter”.

Ancient Greek word, found 3 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.2.7: Φαύλου δὲ ἀποθανόντος ἐς Φάλαικον τὸν παῖδα αὐτοῦ περιεχώρησεν ἡ ἐν Φωκεῦσι δυναστεία· καὶ ἐπεὶ ἔσχεν ὁ Φάλαικος αἰτ …

Flavius Josephus, Against Apion 1.53: Φαῦλοι δέ τινες ἄνθρωποι διαβάλλειν μου τὴν ἱστορίαν ἐπικεχειρήκασιν ὥσπερ ἐν σχολῇ μειρακίων γύμνασμα προκεῖσθαι νο …

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.