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

  • "ἐν Λήμνῳ μὲν οὐδέτεροσ ἡμῶν εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι γέγονε, τουτὶ μέντοι τὸ τεθρυλημένον ἰαμβεῖον ἀμφότεροι πολλάκισ ἀκηκόαμεν Ἄθωσ καλύψει πλευρὰ Λημνίασ βοόσ· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 22 3:2)
  • ἀμφὶ δὲ φᾶροσ ἕσσατο κυάνεον, τό ῥά οἱ πάροσ ἐγγυάλιξεν Λημνιὰσ Ὑψιπύλη, ἀδινῆσ μνημήιον εὐνῆσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 20:9)
  • δύο δὲ ἄλλα ἐστὶν ἀναθήματα, Περικλῆσ ὁ Ξανθίππου καὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν Φειδίου θέασ μάλιστα ἄξιον Ἀθηνᾶσ ἄγαλμα ἀπὸ τῶν ἀναθέντων καλουμένησ Λημνίασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 4:2)

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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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