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λίτυον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λίτυον λίτυου

Structure: λιτυ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. lituus

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

  • τοῦτο δ’ ἔστι μὲν ἐπικαμπὲσ ἐκ θατέρου πέρατοσ, καλεῖται δὲ λίτυον χρῶνται δ’ αὐτῷ πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν πλινθίων ὑπογραφάσ ὅταν ἐπ’ ὄρνισι διαμαντευόμενοι καθέζωνται, ὡσ κἀκεῖνοσ ἐχρῆτο μαντικώτατοσ ὤν. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 32 5:1)
  • οἱ δὲ τοῦτο μὲν εἰσ Νομᾶν ἀναφέρουσι, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα τὸν Ῥωμύλον θεοσεβῆ διαφερόντωσ, ἔτι δὲ μαντικὸν ἱστοροῦσι γενέσθαι, καὶ φορεῖν ἐπὶ μαντικῇ τὸ καλούμενον λίτυον· (Plutarch, chapter 22 1:2)

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

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