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λυκέη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυκέη

Structure: λυκε (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sub. dora/

Sense

  1. a wolf-skin

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

  • καὶ Λυκέασ ὁ Ναυκρατίτησ ἐν τοῖσ Αἰγυπτιακοῖσ, οὐδὲν αὐτῷ συμπράξασ ἐποίησεν ἐκπεσόντα τῆσ ἀρχῆσ φυγεῖν εἰσ Πέρσασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6 3:1)
  • Δίνων δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Περσικοῖσ καὶ Λυκέασ ὁ Ναυκρατίτησ ἐν τρίτῃ Αἰγυπτιακῶν τὴν Νειτῆτιν Κύρῳ πεμφθῆναί φασιν ὑπὸ Ἀμάσιδοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 10 3:4)
  • ταῦτα ἐσ τὴν Πύρρου τελευτὴν αὐτοὶ λέγουσιν Ἀργεῖοι καὶ ὁ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἐξηγητὴσ Λυκέασ ἐν ἔπεσιν εἴρηκε· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 13:4)
  • θαῦμα δὴ ποιοῦμαι τῶν καλουμένων Αἰακιδῶν τρισὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ συμβῆναι τὴν τελευτήν, εἴ γε Ἀχιλλέα μὲν Ὅμηροσ ὑπὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου φησὶ τοῦ Πριάμου καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἀπολέσθαι, Πύρρον δὲ τὸν Ἀχιλλέωσ ἡ Πυθία προσέταξεν ἀποκτεῖναι Δελφοῖσ, τῷ δὲ Αἰακίδου συνέβη τὰ ἐσ τὴν τελευτὴν οἱᾶ Ἀργεῖοί τε λέγουσι καὶ Λυκέασ ἐποίησε. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 14:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ Λυκέασ ἐποίησεν, ἐσ Νεμέαν Ἀργείων ἀγόντων θυσίαν τῷ Διὶ ὁ Βίτων ὑπὸ ῥώμησ τε καὶ ἰσχύοσ ταῦρον ἀράμενοσ ἤνεγκεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. a wolf-skin

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

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