Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Λητῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λητῷος Λητῷη Λητῷον

Structure: Λητῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Lhtw/

Sense

  1. of or born from Leto

Examples

  • ὁ μὲν ἐν Δήλῳ παρὰ τῷ θεῷ τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην ἀποφηνάμενοσ συνέγραψεν ἐπὶ τὸ προπύλαιον τοῦ Λητῴου, διελὼν οὐχ ὑπάρχοντα πάντα τῷ αὐτῷ, τό τε ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ ἡδύ, ποιήσασ κάλλιστον τὸ δικαιότατον, λῷστον δ’ ὑγιαίνειν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 3:1)
  • ὁ μὲν ἐν Δήλῳ παρὰ τῷ θεῷ τὴν αὑτοῦ γνώμην ἀποφηνάμενοσ, συνέγραψεν ἐπὶ τὸ προπύλαιον τοῦ Λητῴου, διελὼν ὑπάρχοντα πάντα τῷ αὐτῷ, τό τε ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ καλὸν καὶ τὸ ἡδύ, ποιήσασ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section48)

Synonyms

  1. of or born from Leto

Related

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

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