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λίς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λίς

Structure: λι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: epic for le/wn

Sense

  1. a lion

Declension

Third 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

  • εἴθ’ εὐχαῖσιν δεσποσύνοισ Λήδασ Ἑλένα φίλα παῖσ ἐλθοῦσα τύχοι τὰν Τρῳάδα λι‐ ποῦσα πόλιν, ἵν’ ἀμφὶ χαί‐ τᾳ δρόσον αἱματηρὰν ἑλιχθεῖσα λαιμοτόμῳ δεσποίνασ χειρὶ θάνοι ποινὰσ δοῦσ’ ἀντιπάλουσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • Κίννα δὲ καὶ Κάρβωνοσ ἐν Ῥώμῃ τοῖσ ἐπιφανεστάτοισ ἀνδράσι χρωμένων παρανόμωσ καὶ βιαίωσ, πολλοὶ τήν τυραννίδα φεύγοντεσ ὥσπερ εἰσ λι μένα τοῦ Σύλλα τὸ στρατόπεδον κατεφέροντο, καὶ περὶ αὐτὸν ὀλίγου χρόνου σχῆμα βουλῆσ ἐγεγόνει. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 22 1:1)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δὲ τὸ λίαν λῖ, Συρακὼ δὲ τὰσ Συρακούσσασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 5 6:11)

Synonyms

  1. a lion

Related

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

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