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λίτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λίτρον λίτρου

Structure: λιτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: older form for ni/tron, Hdt., Plat.

Sense

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

  • αὐστηρῶν δὲ, πτισάνησ ὁ χυλὸσ, τῆσ ὀριγάνου ἢ ὑσσώπου προσλαβὼν, ἠδὲ πεπέριοσ καὶ λίτρου πλεῖον ἀντὶ τῶν ἁλῶν· χόνδροι ξὺν μέλικρήτῳ κάθεφθοι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 19)
  • ἐπὴν δὲ μεσηγὺ τὴν δύναμιν ἑδράσῃσ, κλυσμῷ χρέω τῷ ξυνήθεϊ, λίτρου πολλὸν ἐμπάσσων, ἢ Ῥητίνησ τῆσ ἀπὸ τῆσ τερμίνθου τοῦ δένδρεοσ ἐντήκων ὁλκῆσ δραχμὰσ δύο· ἐσ δὲ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέρην αἷμα τῆσ Ῥινὸσ ἔνδον ἀφαιρέειν, ὡσ εἴσω παρωθεῖσ θαι τὸ ὄργανον κατειάδιον εὔμηκεσ, ἢ τὸ καλεόμενον τορύνην. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 38)
  • πιπίσκειν τε πρὸ τῶν σιτίων ὁκόσα οὖρον ἐξάγει, μῆον, ἄσαρον, ἀψίνθιον· ἐμπασσέσθω δὲ καὶ λίτρου· πάντων δὲ κράτιστον κασσίη καὶ κιννάμωμον , ἤν τισ εὐπορῇ· γάλα τοῖσδε καὶ τροφὴ καὶ φάρμακον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 265)

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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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