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λῆθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῆθος λῆθη λῆθον

Structure: ληθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lh/qomai

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

  • "περὶ Βερενίκην τῆσ Λιβύησ Λήθων ποτάμιον, ἐν ᾧ γίνεται ἰχθὺσ λάβραξ καὶ χρύσοφρυσ καὶ ἐγχέλεων πλῆθοσ καὶ τῶν καλουμένων βασιλικῶν, αἳ τῶν τε ἐκ Μακεδονίασ καὶ τῆσ Κωπαίδοσ λίμνησ τὸ μέγεθόσ εἰσιν ἡμιόλιαι, πᾶν τε τὸ ῥεῖθρον αὐτοῦ ἰχθύων ποικίλων ἐστὶ πλῆρεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 84 1:1)
  • μακάρων δὲ θεῶν ἠλεύαθ’ ὅμιλον, ἄντρον ἔσω ναίουσα παλίσκιον, ἔνθα Κρονίων νύμφῃ ἐυπλοκάμῳ μισγέσκετο νυκτὸσ ἀμολγῷ, ὄφρα κατὰ γλυκὺσ ὕπνοσ ἔχοι λευκώλενον Ἥρην, λήθων ἀθανάτουσ τε θεοὺσ θνητούσ τ’ ἀνθρώπουσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:2)
  • τοὺσ γὰρ συμμάχουσ ἀεὶ πλέον ἔχειν αὐτῶν ἐμηχανᾶτο, ἐξαπατῶν μὲν ὅπου καιρὸσ εἰή, φθάνων δὲ ὅπου τάχουσ δέοι, λήθων δὲ ὅπου τοῦτο συμφέροι, πάντα δὲ τἀναντία πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἢ πρὸσ τοὺσ φίλουσ ἐπιτηδεύων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 7:2)

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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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