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Λίνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λίνος Λίνου

Sense

  1. Linos
  2. the song or lay of Linos, the, lay of Linos, a mournful song.

Examples

  • λέγει δὲ οὕτωσ ὁ Λίνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 57 1:3)
  • "λίνοσ δὲ καὶ αἴλινοσ οὐ μόνον ἐν πένθεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ’ ἐπ’ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ κατὰ τὸν Εὐριπίδην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 4:9)
  • Καλλιόπησ μὲν οὖν καὶ Οἰάγρου, κατ’ ἐπίκλησιν δὲ Ἀπόλλωνοσ, Λίνοσ, ὃν Ἡρακλῆσ ἀπέκτεινε, καὶ Ὀρφεὺσ ὁ ἀσκήσασ κιθαρῳδίαν, ὃσ ᾄδων ἐκίνει λίθουσ τε καὶ δένδρα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 3 2:1)
  • γράμματα μὲν τὸν παῖδα γέρων Λίνοσ ἐξεδίδαξεν, υἱὸσ Ἀπόλλωνοσ μελεδωνεὺσ ἄγρυπνοσ ἡρ́ωσ, τόξον δ’ ἐντανύσαι καὶ ἐπίσκοπον εἶναι ὀϊστῶν Εὔρυτοσ ἐκ πατέρων μεγάλαισ ἀφνειὸσ ἀρούραισ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 60)
  • ἰδοὺ γοῦν παρὰ μὲν Ἀθηναίοισ γέγονε Μουσαῖοσ, παρὰ δὲ Θηβαίοισ Λίνοσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , PROOIMION 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. the song or lay of Linos

Related

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

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