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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

  • καὶ κυριεύσει ἐν τοῖσ ἀποκρύφοισ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀργύρου καὶ ἐν πᾶσιν ἐπιθυμητοῖσ Αἰγύπτου καὶ Λιβύων καὶ Αἰθιόπων ἐν τοῖσ ὀχυρώμασιν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 11:43)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ Λιβύων μαντήιον τὸ Ἄμμωνοσ, καὶ τοῦτο ἐσ τὸν ἠέρα καὶ ἐσ τὴν τούτου σοφίην ἵδρυτο,^ παρ’ ὃ τὸν Ἄμμωνα καὶ οὗτοι κριοπρόσωπον ποιέονται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 8:2)
  • Λιβύων δὲ παῖδεσ ὀκταέτεισ ἔστιν οἳ αὐτῶν, οἳ δὲ οὐ πολλῷ πρεσβύτεροι, ἐπὶ γυμνῶν τῶν ἵππων ἐλαύνουσιν, ῥάβδῳ χρώμενοι ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ ὅσα Ἕλληνεσ χαλινῷ, καὶ ἐσ τοσοῦτον ἄρα ἐφομαρτοῦσιν τοῖσ ὄνοισ τοῖσ ἀγρίοισ, ἔστε τελευτῶντεσ βρόχον περιβαλόντεσ τῷ θηρίῳ ἄγουσιν· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 24 3:1)
  • Ἰταλιώτησ Σκηπίων στρατηγὸσ ὁ καθελὼν Καρχηδόνα καὶ κρατήσασ Λιβύων μεγάλαισ μάχαισ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 16:4)
  • Ἀλέξανδροσ δὲ τόν τε Δία τὸν Ἑλλήνων καὶ τὸν Ἄμμωνα τὸν Λιβύων ἐπόμνυσιν, ἦ μὲν μεζόνωσ ἐπὶ τῇδε τῇ ἀγγελίῃ χαίρειν ἢ ὅτι τὴν Ἀσίην πᾶσαν ἐκτημένοσ ἔχει. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 35 8:1)

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

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