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λέσβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέσβιος λέσβιᾱ λέσβιον

Structure: λεσβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lesbian, of Lesbos

Examples

  • Λεσβίου πώματοσ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλοσ οἶνοσ ἡδίων πιεῖν, φησὶν Ἄλεξισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 51 1:3)
  • ἡδὺσ γ’ ὁ Βρόμιοσ τὴν ἀτέλειαν Λεσβίου ποιῶν τὸν οἶνον εἰσάγουσιν ἐνθάδε ὃσ ἂν εἰσ ἑτέραν ληφθῇ δ’ ἀποστέλλων πόλιν κἂν κύαθον, ἱερὰν ἐγγράφων τὴν οὐσίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 51 1:6)
  • ἐὰν γὰρ ἐξαίφνησ αὐτοῦ γεύσῃ μὴ πρόσθεν ἐθισθείσ, εὐώδησ μέν σοι δόξει τοῦ Λεσβίου εἶναι μᾶλλον ἔχει γὰρ τοῦτο χρόνου διὰ μῆκοσ ἄπλατον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 52 2:4)
  • καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀνδροφόνῳ δὲ ἐπιγραφομένῳ ὁ αὐτὸσ Βάτων διαπαίξασ τινὰ τῶν ἐπιεικῶν φιλοσόφων ἐπιφέρει ἐξὸν γυναῖκ’ ἔχοντα κατακεῖσθαι καλὴν καὶ Λεσβίου χυτρῖδε λαμβάνειν δύο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 9 2:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ Σωτίων φησὶ Ποτάμωνοσ ἀκοῦσαι τοῦ Λεσβίου. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 61 1:5)

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

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