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λήιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λήιον

Structure: ληι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a crop
  2. a corn-field, field

Declension

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐήν βαθὺ λήιον· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 26:6)
  • ἢ νὴ Δία τὴν γῆν ταύτην καὶ τὴν ἄρουραν ἀποβλέψασ ἐμπεπλησμένην ἡμέρων καρπῶν καὶ βρίθουσαν ἀσταχύων, ἔπειτα ὑποβλέψασ που τοῖσ ληίοισ τούτοισ καὶ πού τινοσ αἴρασ στάχυν ἰδὼν καὶ ὀροβάγχην, εἶτ’ ἀφεὶσ ἐκεῖνα καρποῦσθαι καὶ ληίζεσθαι μέμφοιτο περὶ τούτων. (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 3 3:1)
  • μυρίαι ἄπειροί τε καὶ ἔθνεα μυρία φωτῶν λήιον ἀλδήσκουσιν ὀφελλόμεναι Διὸσ ὄμβρῳ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 42)
  • ἤδη καλλιπέτηλον ἐπ’ εὐκάρποισι λοχείαισ λήιον ἐκ ῥοδέων ἀνθοφορεῖ καλύκων ἤδη ἐπ’ ἀκρεμόνεσσιν ἰσοζυγέων κυπαρίσσων μουσομανὴσ τέττιξ θέλγει ἀμαλλοδέτην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 161)
  • εἴπερ ἐπομβρηθῇ τὸ ἀρούριον ὅσσον ἀπόχρη, μηδὲ τιν’ ὑλαίην τέξεται ἀνθοσύνην, μηδὲ πάγοσ ῥήξῃ τὴν αὔλακα, μηδὲ χαλάζῃ ἄκρον ἀποδρυφθῇ δράγματοσ ὀρνυμένου, μηδὲ κεμὰσ κείρῃσι τὰ λήια, μηδὲ τιν’ ἄλλην ἠέροσ ἢ γαίησ ὄψεται ἀμπλακίην, ἐσθλόν σοι τὸ θέροσ μαντεύομαι, εὖ δ’ ἀποκόψεισ τοὺσ στάχυασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 365 1:2)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ἂν πόντον σπείρων βαθὺ λήϊον ἀμῷσ, οὔτε κακοὺσ εὖ δρῶν εὖ πάλιν ἀντιλάβοισ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-138952)
  • Διέβαλον δὲ τῆσ νυκτὸσ ᾗ λήιον ἦν σίτου βαθύ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 4 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a crop

  2. a corn-field

Related

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

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