Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λύα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύα

Structure: λυ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: doric for lu/h.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • φεῦ φεῦ, φρονεῖν ὡσ δεινὸν ἔνθα μὴ τέλη λύῃ φρονοῦντι· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 3:7)
  • τότε δ’ ἐξεῖναι τῷ βουλομένῳ Ἀθηναίων λύειν, ἕτερον τιθέντι ἀνθ’ ὅτου ἂν λύῃ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 43:1)
  • ἐὰν δέ τισ ἐκδοὺσ αὖ δημιουργῷ μὴ ἀποδῷ τοὺσ μισθοὺσ ὀρθῶσ κατὰ τὴν ἔννομον ὁμολογίαν γενομένην, Δία δὲ πολιοῦχον καὶ Ἀθηνᾶν κοινωνοὺσ πολιτείασ ἀτιμάζων, βραχὺ κέρδοσ ἀγαπῶν, λύῃ μεγάλασ κοινωνίασ, νόμοσ ὁ βοηθῶν ἔστω τῷ τῆσ πόλεωσ συνδέσμῳ μετὰ θεῶν· (Plato, Laws, book 11 54:1)
  • πρᾶξιν ἣ ἂν ἀεὶ ταύτην λύῃ, ἀμαθίαν δὲ τὴν ταύτῃ αὖ ἐπιστατοῦσαν δόξαν. (Plato, Republic, book 4 564:1)
  • ἀρχοὶ δ’ οὐκ ἔτ’ ἔσαν Ταλαοῦ παῖδεσ, βιασθέντεσ λύᾳ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 6:2)

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

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