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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

  • οὕτω γὲ τοι καὶ τοῦ Νέστοροσ ὑμῖν ἀπορρεῖ ἐκ τῆσ γλώττησ τὸ μέλι, καὶ οἱ ἀγορηταὶ τῶν Τρώων τὴν ὄπα ἀφιᾶσιν εὐανθῆ τινα λείρια γὰρ καλεῖται, εἴ γε μέμνημαι, τὰ ἄνθη. (Lucian, Hercules, 4:8)
  • τρέσσαν δ’ Ἀθαναίων ἠϊθέων < πᾶν > γένοσ, ἐπεὶ ἡρ́ωσ θόρεν πόντονδε, κα‐ τὰ λειρίων τ’ ὀμμάτων δά‐ κρυ χέον, βαρεῖαν ἐπιδέγμενοι ἀνάγκαν· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 5:3)
  • πρῶτόν τε τῶν ἀνθέων ἐκφαίνεσθαί φησιν τὸ λευκόιον, ἅμα δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ φλόγινον καλούμενον τὸ ἄγριον, ἔπειτα νάρκισσον καὶ λείριον καὶ τῶν ἀγρίων ἀνεμώνησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 273)
  • Φιλῖνοσ δὲ τὸ κρίνον ὑφ’ ὧν μὲν λείριον, ὑφ’ ὧν δὲ ἰόν καλεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 27 3:2)
  • κοσμοσανδάλων δὲ μνημονεύει Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Μαλθακοῖσ διὰ τούτων κεφαλὴν ἀνθέμοισ ἐρέπτομαι, λειρίοισ, ῥόδοισ, κρίνεσιν,6 κοσμοσανδάλοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 281)
  • εἶθ’ ἑξῆσ μὲν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ τῆσ Λατίνησ εἰσὶν ἐπίσημοι κατοικίαι καὶ πόλεισ Φερεντῖνον, Φρουσινών, παρ’ ἣν ὁ Κόσασ ῥεῖ ποταμόσ, Φαβρατερία, παρ’ ἣν ὁ Τρῆροσ ῥεῖ, Ἀκουῖνον μεγάλη πόλισ, παρ’ ἣν ὁ Μέλπισ ῥεῖ ποταμὸσ μέγασ, Ἰντεράμνιον ἐν συμβολῇ δυεῖν ποταμῶν κείμενον Λείριόσ τε καὶ ἑτέρου, Κασῖνον καὶ αὕτη πόλισ ἀξιόλογοσ, ὑστάτη τῶν Λατίνων· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 18:7)

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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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