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Λιβύη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λιβύη

Structure: Λιβυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Libya, the north part of Africa

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα ὄρνεα πολλὰ ἐπιπετόμενα οὐκ εὐπρόσιτον ἀπεργάζεται τὴν Λιβύην ἐκείνην. (Lucian, Dipsades 5:2)
  • ἐστάλη μὲν οὗτοσ ἐπὶ τὰσ Γοργόνασ ἆθλόν τινα τοῦτον τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπιτελῶν, ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀφίκετο ἐσ τὴν Λιβύην ‐ Πῶσ, ὦ Τρίτων; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 22)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ εἰ μὴ μικρὰ τὰ ἑσπέρια δόξασ ἐπὶ τὴν ἑώ μᾶλλον ὡρ́μησα, τί ἂν μέγα ἔπραξα Ἰταλίαν ἀναιμωτὶ λαβὼν καὶ Λιβύην καὶ τὰ μέχρι Γαδείρων ὑπαγόμενοσ; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 14:4)
  • σπείρειν μέν, ὅταν γέρανοσ κρώζουσ’ ἐσ τὴν Λιβύην μεταχωρῇ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ Ῥουβρίου τῶν συναρχόντων ἑνὸσ οἰκίζεσθαι Καρχηδόνα γράψαντοσ ἀνῃρημένην ὑπὸ Σκηπίωνοσ, κλήρῳ λαχὼν ὁ Γάιοσ ἐξέπλευσεν εἰσ Λιβύην ἐπὶ τὸν κατοικισμόν, ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐπιβὰσ ὁ Δροῦσοσ ἀπόντοσ αὐτοῦ τὸν δῆμον ὑπελάμβανε καὶ προσήγετο, μάλιστα ταῖσ κατὰ τοῦ Φουλβίου διαβολαῖσ. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 10 2:1)

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

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