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λείριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λείριος λείριον

Structure: λειρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = leirio/eis, Pind.

Sense

Declension

First/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

  • Δημοδάμασ γὰρ ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεὺσ ἢ Μιλήσιοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ Κυπρία Ἁλικαρνασσέωσ αὐτὰ εἶναί φησι ποιήματα, λέγει δ’ οὖν ὅστισ ἐστὶν ὁ ποιήσασ αὐτὰ ἐν τῷ α’ οὑτωσί εἵματα μὲν χροὶ ἕστο τά οἱ Χάριτέσ τε καὶ Ὧραι ποίησαν καὶ ἔβαψαν ἐν ἄνθεσιν εἰαρινοῖσιν, οἱᾶ φοροῦσ1’Σ321 ὡρ͂αι, ἔν τε κρόκῳ ἔν θ’ ὑακίνθῳ ἔν τε ἰῴ θαλέθοντι ῥόδου τ’ ἐνὶ ἄνθει καλῷ, ἡδέι νεκταρέῳ, ἒν τ’ ἀμβροσίαισ καλύκεσσιν ναρκίσσου καὶ λειρίου δῖ̓ Ἀφροδίτη ὡρ́αισ παντοίαισ τεθυωμένα εἵματα ἕστο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 30 1:1)

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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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