Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Λιβυκός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λιβυκός Λιβυκή Λιβυκόν

Structure: Λιβυκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Libyan

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ πλῆθοσ μικροῦ δεῖν ἐνάμιλλον τοῖσ Λιβυκοῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 12:20)
  • ἦν μὲν οὖν ἡ Αἴγυπτοσ εἰρηνικὴ τὸ πλέον ἐξ ἀρχῆσ διὰ τὸ αὔταρκεσ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τὸ δυσείσβολον τοῖσ ἔξωθεν, ἀπὸ μὲν τῶν ἄρκτων ἀλιμένῳ παραλίᾳ καὶ πελάγει τῷ Αἰγυπτίῳ φρουρουμένη, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ ἑώ καὶ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ ἐρήμοισ ὄρεσι, τοῖσ τε Λιβυκοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ Ἀραβίοισ, ὥσπερ ἔφαμεν· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 105:1)
  • τὰ δὲ πλεῖστα τῶν τοῦ Πτολεμαίου θηρίων ἀπεδειλία τὴν μάχην, ὅπερ ἔθοσ ἐστὶ ποιεῖν τοῖσ Λιβυκοῖσ ἐλέφασι· (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 84 5:1)

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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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