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Λυδός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λυδός Λυδοῦ

Structure: Λυδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. an inhabitant of Lydia; a Lydian

Declension

Second 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

  • λυπεῖ δὲ τὸν μὲν Λυδὸν υἱὸσ κωφὸσ ὤν, τὸν Πέρσην δὲ Κλέαρχοσ Κύρῳ ξενολογῶν, ἄλλον δὲ Δίων πρὸσ οὖσ τισι τῶν Συρακουσίων κοινολογούμενοσ, καὶ ἄλλον Παρμενίων ἐπαινούμενοσ καὶ Περδίκκαν Πτολεμαῖοσ καὶ Πτολεμαῖον Σέλευκοσ· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:8)
  • φέρ’ ἴδω, πότερα Λυδὸν ἢ Φρύγα ταυτὶ λέγουσα μορμολύττεσθαι δοκεῖσ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:18)
  • ἔπεμψε γὰρ ἄνδρα Λυδὸν ἐνταῦθα, Κᾶρα δὲ ἕτερον εἰσ Τροφωνίου ὁ Μαρδόνιοσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:3)
  • "ἢ Φρύγα καλλιπνόων αὐλῶν ἱερῶν βασιλῆα, Λυδὸν ὃσ ἡρ́μοσε πρῶτοσ Δωρίδοσ ἀντίπαλον μούσησ νόμον αἰολον, ὀμφᾷ πνεύματοσ εὔπτερον αὔραν ἀμφιπλέκων καλάμοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:11)
  • ταῦτ’ εἰπὼν ὁ τένθησ Ἀρχέστρατοσ καὶ τὸν τῶν ἄρτων ποιητὴν ἔχειν συμβουλεύει Φοίνικα ἢ Λυδὸν ἠγνόει γὰρ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ Καππαδοκίασ ἀρτοποιοὺσ ἀρίστουσ ὄντασ, λέγει δ’ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 77 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. an inhabitant of Lydia

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