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γλῆνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γλῆνος

Structure: γλην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from glh/nh

Sense

  1. things to stare at, shows, wonders

Examples

  • Ὕλλου δὲ καὶ Δωριέων μάχῃ κρατηθέντων ὑπὸ Ἀχαιῶν, ἐνταῦθα Ἀβίαν Γλήνου τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ τροφὸν ἀποχωρῆσαι λέγουσιν ἐσ τὴν Ἴρην καὶ οἰκῆσαί τε αὐτόθι καὶ Ἡρακλέουσ ἱερὸν ἱδρύσασθαι, καί οἱ διὰ ταῦτα ὕστερον Κρεσφόντην ἄλλα τε γέρα νεῖμαι καὶ τῇ πόλει μεταθέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ τῆσ Ἀβίασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 2:3)

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

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