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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

  • Χρὴ δὲ καὶ κάτω ἄγειν ὑγρὰ καὶ φύσασ, ἐπὶ μὲν φλεβοτομίησ διαχρίοντα τὴν ἕδρην λίτρῳ, μέλιτι, πηγάνῳ, Ῥητίνῃ τῇ ἀπὸ τῆσ τερμίνθου τῇ ὑγρῇ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 5)
  • ἀντὶ δὲ τῆσ φλεβοτομίησ, εἰ μέζων ἡ κώλυσισ ἐοί, ὑποκλύζειν χυλῷ δριμέϊ, ἁλσὶ μὲν πρὸσ τῷ λίτρῳ, ἡ Ῥητίνη δὲ τῆσ τερμίνθου ξὺν τῷ μέλιτι· πήγανον δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐλαίῳ καὶ ὕσσωπον ἐν τῷ ὕδατι ἑψηθέντα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 6)
  • Θώρηξ δὲ ἐσκεπάσθω εἰρίοισι ξὺν λίπαϊ, καὶ λίτρῳ, ἢ ἁλσί. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 26)
  • Ἢν δὲ ἐν χωρίῳ ᾖ, ὃ μὴ οἱο͂́ν τε τάμνειν, βαθείη δὲ καὶ ἡ σύριγξ, ἄνθει χαλκοῦ καὶ σμύρνῃ καὶ λίτρῳ οὔρῳ διεὶσ, κλύζειν, καὶ ἐσ τὸ στόμα τῆσ σύριγγοσ μολύβδιον ἐντιθέναι, ὅπωσ μὴ ξυμφύηται‧ κλύζειν δὲ πτεροῦ σύριγγα προσδήσασ πρὸσ κύστιν, καὶ καθεὶσ ἐσ τὴν σύριγγα, πρὸσ τοῦτο διάγειν κλύζων. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 6.1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ ποιήσαντεσ ταριχεύουσι λίτρῳ κρύψαντεσ ἡμέρασ ἑβδομήκοντα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 86 6:2)
  • τέγξισ μὲν ὦν ξὺν ἀλόῃ ἤ λίτρῳ· εἴρια πινόεντα οἰσύπῳ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 235)

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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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