Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

λαγῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαγῷος λαγῷη λαγῷον

Structure: λαγῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for lagw/ios

Sense

  1. of the hare, hare's flesh, dainties, delicacies

Examples

  • κἀμοὶ λεκάνιον τῶν λαγῴων δὸσ κρεῶν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:18)
  • ἔπειτ’ ἐπιφόρει τοὺσ ἀμύλουσ καὶ τὰσ κίχλασ καὶ τῶν λαγῴων πολλὰ καὶ τοὺσ κολλάβουσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode5)
  • ἀλλ’ ὦ πρὸ τοῦ πεινῶντεσ ἐμβάλλεσθε τῶν λαγῴων· (Aristophanes, Peace, Exodus, trochees3)
  • ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀσθενείασ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ χρησίμοισ ἢ ἀγνοίασ τῶν λεκτέων ἐπὶ τὰσ τοιαύτασ τῶν χωρίων καὶ ἄντρων ἐκφράσεισ τρέπονται, καὶ ὁπόταν ἐσ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα πράγματα ἐμπέσωσιν, ἐοίκασιν οἰκέτῃ νεοπλούτῳ, ἄρτι κληρονομήσαντι τοῦ δεσπότου, ὃσ οὔτε τὴν ἐσθῆτα οἶδεν ὡσ χρὴ περιβαλέσθαι οὔτε δειπνῆσαι κατὰ νόμον, ἀλλ̓ ἐμπηδήσασ, πολλάκισ ὀρνίθων καὶ συείων καὶ λαγῴων προκειμένων, ὑπερεμπίπλαται ἔτνουσ τινὸσ ἢ ταρίχουσ, ἔστ̓ ἂν διαρραγῇ ἐσθίων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 201)
  • ιζ ̔16̓ Περὶ λαγωῶν, καὶ τίσ ἡ τούτων ἀρετή. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr19)
  • καίτοι οὐδ̓ αὐτοῖσ ἐκείνοισ ἡδύ ἐστιν αὐτὸ καθ̓ ἡμέραν καὶ πέρα τοῦ κόρου ἐσθίειν τούτων, ἀλλὰ ἴδοισ ἂν αὐτοὺσ οὕτω λαχάνων καὶ θύμου ὀρεγομένουσ ἐνίοτε, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ σὺ τῶν λαγωῶν καὶ ὑῶν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 2 4:8)

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

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