Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαῖνα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαῖνα

Structure: λαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • τὴν θεὸν δ’ ὅπωσ λάθω δέδοικα καὶ τύραννον, ἡνίκ’ ἂν κενὰσ κρηπῖδασ εὑρ́ῃ λαί̈νασ ἀγάλματοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 4:6)
  • ἐκβάντι δ’ αὐτῷ τοῦ φορείου προσρυεὶσ Ποπίλιοσ Λαίνασ, ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ μικρῷ πρόσθεν εὐξάμενοσ τοῖσ περὶ Βροῦτον ἐπιτυγχάνειν καί κατορθοῦν, διελέγετο πλείω χρόνον ἐφισταμένῳ καί προσέχοντι τὸν νοῦν. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 16 1:3)
  • καί μετὰ μικρὸν ὁ Λαίνασ τὴν δεξιὰν τοῦ Καίσαροσ καταφιλήσασ ἀπέστη, φανερὸσ γενόμενοσ ὡσ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ καί τῶν αὑτῷ τινοσ διαφερόντων ἐποιεῖτο τὴν ἔντευξιν. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 16 4:1)
  • καὶ γάρ ἃσ ἐφ ό ρουν οἱ ἱερεῖσ λαίνασ ὁ Ιὄβασ χλαίνασ φησὶν εἶναι, καὶ τὸν ὑπηρετοῦντα τῷ ἱερεῖ τοῦ Διὸσ ἀμφιθαλῆ παῖδα λέγεσθαι Κάμιλλον, ὡσ καὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν οὕτωσ ἔνιοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων Κάμιλλον ἀπὸ τῆσ διακονίασ προσηγόρευον. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 7 5:2)
  • αὐτὸν δὲ Βροῦτον καὶ Κάσσιον σύννουσ τε ὄντασ καὶ συλλαλοῦντασ ἀλλήλοισ τῶν τισ βουλευτῶν ἐπισπάσασ, Ποπίλιοσ Λαίνασ, ἔφη συνεύχεσθαι περὶ ὧν ἔχουσι κατὰ νοῦν, καὶ παρῄνει ἐπιταχύνειν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 16 10:16)

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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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