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σόλοικος , ον,
A.speaking incorrectly, using broken Greek, “φθόγγοςAnacr.79; οἱ σόλοικοι foreigners, Hippon.46; “βάρβαρον ς. τιM.Ant. 1.10.
II. metaph., erring against good manners, awkward, in bad taste, “τῷ τρόπῳX.Cyr.8.3.21 (Comp.), cf. Arist.Rh.1391a4, Cic.Att. 14.6.2, Plu.2.817b; σολοικότερον, c. inf., it would be clumsy, absurd, Hp.Fract.15. Adv. -κως rudely, ς. κεκομμένοι, of coins, Zeno Stoic. 1.23. (Said to come from the corruption of the Attic dialect among the Athenian colonists of Σόλοι in Cilicia, Str.14.2.28, D.L.1.51.)
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 14.6.2
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.3.21
    • Strabo, Geography, 14.2.28
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 15
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 1.10
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