Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Λήμνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λήμνιος Λήμνιᾱ Λήμνιον

Structure: Λημνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lemnian

Examples

  • τί δ’ ἄλλο ἢ τὴν Λημνίαν, ᾗ καὶ ἐπιγράψαι τοὔνομα ὁ Φειδίασ ἠξίωσε; (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 4:14)
  • ὁ Ζεὺσ οὑλύμπιοσ, ἡ Ἀθήνησιν Ἀθηνᾶ, λέγω τοῦτο μὲν τὴν ἐλεφαντίνην, τοῦτο δ’, εἰ βούλει, τὴν χαλκῆν καὶ νὴ Δία γ’, εἰ βούλει, τὴν Λημνίαν, ἅπαντα ταῦτα ὑπερβολὴν μὲν ἀρετῆσ τῷ δημιουργῷ, τοῖσ δὲ θεαταῖσ ἡδονῆσ ἔχει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:10)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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