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λήμη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λήμη

Structure: λημ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a humour that gathers in the corner of the eye, gum, rheum, eyesore, that dim the eyes

Declension

First 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

  • γελοῖον γάρ εἴ τισ οἰοίτο τὴν ’ Ιοὐλίδα, μέροσ μικρὸν οὖσαν οὐ μεγάλησ νήσου τῆσ Κέω, καὶ τὴν Αἴγιναν, ἣν τῶν Ἀττικῶν τισ ἐκέλευεν ὡσ λήμην ἀφαιρεῖν τοῦ Πειραιῶσ, ὑποκριτὰσ μὲν ἀγαθοὺσ τρέφειν καὶ ποιητάσ, ἄνδρα δ’ οὐκ ἄν ποτε δύνασθαι δίκαιον καὶ αὐτάρκη καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντα καὶ μεγαλόψυχον προενεγκεῖν. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 1 2:1)
  • Στρατοκλῆσ δ’ ὁ ῥήτωρ ἐρωμένην εἶχε τὴν ἐπικληθεῖσαν Λήμην ἑταίραν, τὴν καλουμένην Παρόραμα καὶ Δίδραχμον διὰ τὸ καὶ δύο δραχμῶν φοιτᾶν πρὸσ τὸν βουλόμενον, ὥσ φησι Γοργίασ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἑταιρῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 70 1:4)
  • καὶ Δημάδησ δὲ ὁ ῥήτωρ ἔλεγε τὴν μὲν Αἴγιναν εἶναι λήμην τοῦ Πειραιῶσ, τὴν δὲ Σάμον ἀπορρῶγα τῆσ πόλεωσ, ἐάρ δὲ τοῦ δήμου τοὺσ ἐφήβουσ, τὸ δὲ τεῖχοσ ἐσθῆτα τῆσ πόλεωσ, τὸν δὲ σαλπικτὴν κοινὸν Ἀθηναίων ἀλέκτορα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 55 2:3)
  • δεῖ μὲν γὰρ ἀμέλει τῆσ περὶ θεῶν δόξησ ὥσπερ ὄψεωσ λήμην ἀφαιρεῖν τὴν δεισιδαιμονίαν εἰ δὲ τοῦτ’ ἀδύνατον, μὴ συνεκκόπτειν μηδὲ τυφλοῦν τὴν πίστιν, ἣν οἱ πλεῖστοι περὶ θεῶν ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 211)
  • οἱο͂ν τὸ τὴν Αἴγιναν ὡσ λήμην τοῦ Πειραιῶσ ἀφελεῖν κελεῦσαι, καὶ τὸ τὸν πόλεμον ἤδη φάναι καθορᾶν ἀπὸ Πελοποννήσου προσφερόμενον. (Plutarch, , chapter 8 5:3)

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

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