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λιμηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμηρός λιμηρή λιμηρόν

Structure: λιμηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: limh/n

Sense

  1. furnished with a good harbour

Examples

  • φωνήσασα, κακῶν λιμηρὰ γυναικῶν ἔργα, νέον τήκειν ἄνθοσ ἐπιστάμενα εἵλετο δὲ στεφάνουσ καὶ πηκτίδα καὶ μετὰ κώμων ἡ παῖσ τερπνὸν ἔχειν ἐν θαλίαισ βίοτον εἶπε δέ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 285 1:1)
  • τὰ δὲ ἐπέκεινα Γυθίου πρὸσ θαλάσσῃ Ἀσωπὸσ Ἀκριαὶ Βοιαὶ Ζάραξ Ἐπίδαυροσ ἡ Λιμηρὰ Βρασιαὶ Γερόνθραι Μαριόσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 11:2)
  • τῇ δὲ Βοιαῶν ὅμοροσ Ἐπίδαυρόσ ἐστιν ἡ Λιμηρά, σταδίουσ ὡσ διακοσίουσ ἀπέχουσα Ἐπιδηλίου. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 11:2)
  • ἐν οἷσ ἐστι τῶν μὲν Λακώνων τὸ Δήλιον ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ ὁμώνυμον τῷ Βοιωτιακῷ, καὶ Μινώα φρούριον ὁμώνυμοσ καὶ αὕτη τῇ Μεγαρικῇ, καὶ ἡ λιμηρὰ Ἐπίδαυροσ, ὡσ Ἀρτεμίδωρόσ φησιν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. furnished with a good harbour

Derived

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

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