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

  • τούτῳ τίσ, καθά φησιν Ἀριστοτέλησ ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ Ποιητικῆσ, ἐφιλονείκει Ἀντίλοχοσ Λήμνιοσ . (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section19)
  • εἰή μοι μελέεσσι τὰ Λήμνιοσ ἡρ́μοσεν ἄκμων δεσμά, καὶ Ἡφαίστου πᾶσα δολορραφίη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 286 1:1)
  • Τούτῳ τισ, καθά φησιν Ἀριστοτέλησ ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ ποιητικῆσ, ἐφιλονείκει Ἀντίλοχοσ Λήμνιοσ καὶ Ἀντιφῶν ὁ τερατοσκόποσ, ὡσ Πυθαγόρᾳ Κύλων Κροτωνιάτησ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. e'. SWKRATHS 29:6)
  • ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ναυμαχίῃ Ἀντίδωροσ Λήμνιοσ μοῦνοσ τῶν σὺν βασιλέι Ἑλλήνων ἐόντων αὐτομολέει ἐσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι διὰ τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον ἔδοσαν αὐτῷ χῶρον ἐν Σαλαμῖνι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 11 4:3)

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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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