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λύκειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύκειον

Structure: λυκει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Lyceum

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

  • ὁ μὲν χῶροσ αὐτόσ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, γυμνάσιον ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ὀνομάζεται καὶ ἔστιν ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ τοῦ Λυκείου. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 7:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἱκανὸν χρόνον ἀπολλύμεθα καὶ κατατετρίμμεθα πλανώμενοι ἐσ Λύκειον κἀκ Λυκείου ξὺν δορὶ ξὺν ἀσπίδι. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 14)
  • μῶν εἰσ τὴν Ἀκαδημίαν ἢ εἰσ τὴν Στοὰν ἢ ^ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λυκείου ποιησώμεθα τὴν ἀρχήν; (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 52:9)
  • καὶ ταύτῃ μὲν ἐκβιασθῆναι μέχρι τῶν Εὐμενίδων καὶ ὑποχωρῆσαι ταῖσ γυναιξίν, ἀπὸ δὲ Παλλαδίου καὶ Ἀρδηττοῦ καὶ Λυκείου προσβαλόντασ ὤσασθαι τὸ δεξιὸν αὐτῶν ἄχρι τοῦ στρατοπέδου καὶ πολλὰσ καταβαλεῖν. (Plutarch, chapter 27 4:1)
  • γίνεται δὲ σημεῖον αὐτῷ τε τῷ Πύρρῳ μέγα, τῶν γὰρ βοῶν τεθυμένων αἱ κεφαλαὶ κείμεναι χωρὶσ ἤδη τάσ τε γλώττασ ὤφθησαν προβάλλουσαι καὶ περιλιχμώμεναι τὸν ἑαυτῶν φόνον, ἔν τε τῇ πόλει τῶν Ἀργείων ἡ τοῦ Λυκείου προφῆτισ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐξέδραμε βοῶσα νεκρῶν ὁρᾶν καὶ φόνου κατάπλεω τὴν πόλιν, τὸν δ̓ ἀετὸν ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα χωροῦντα, εἶτα φροῦδον εἶναι. (Plutarch, chapter 31 3:1)

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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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