Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λέσβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέσβιος λέσβιᾱ λέσβιον

Structure: λεσβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lesbian, of Lesbos

Examples

  • τοῦ γὰρ ἀορίστου ἀόριστοσ καὶ ὁ κανών ἐστιν, ὥσπερ καὶ τῆσ Λεσβίασ οἰκοδομίασ ὁ μολίβδινοσ κανών· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 146:3)
  • Πιερικὴ δὲ μέλισσα λιγύθροοσ ἕζετο Σαπφὼ Λεσβιάσ, ἠρεμέουσα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 13:2)
  • οἱ μὲν τὸ ἀπὸ Σιγείου ἐπὶ Λάμψακον καὶ Κύζικον ἢ Πάριον ἢ Πρίαπον, ὁ δὲ προσλαμβάνων καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ Σιγρίου τῆσ Λεσβίασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 124:4)
  • ἀπὸ Λεκτοῦ τοίνυν ἐπὶ Ἄσσον πλέουσιν ἀρχὴ τῆσ Λεσβίασ ἐστὶ κατὰ Σίγριον τὸ πρὸσ ἄρκτον αὐτῆσ ἄκρον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 2 4:1)

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

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