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λύκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύκειος λύκειον

Structure: λυκει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a wolf
  2. the Lycian god, the god of light, Lycean, a very wolf

Declension

First/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

  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν Φιλίππου τελευτὴν ἐπ’ Εὐαινέτου ἄρχοντοσ ἀφικόμενοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἐσχόλαζεν ἐν Λυκείῳ χρόνον ἐτῶν δώδεκα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 5 1:4)
  • καὶ ἔγωγε ἡδέωσ ἂν παραστησάμενοσ πλησίον τῶν τε λευκῶν τινα ἐκείνων καὶ ὑπὸ σκιᾷ δεδιῃτημένων καὶ ὃν ἂν ἕλῃ τῶν ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ γυμναζομένων, ἀποπλύνασ ^ τὴν κόνιν καὶ τὸν πηλόν, ἐροίμην ἂν σε ποτέρῳ ἂν ὅμοιοσ εὔξαιο γενέσθαι· (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 29:5)
  • "εἶτα τὸ δειλινὸν περιδινησόμεθα ἐν Λυκείῳ, νῦν δ’ ἤδη καιρόσ ἐστιν χρίεσθαι τὸ ἡλιοκαὲσ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν εἵλην θέρεσθαι καὶ λουσαμένουσ ἀρτοσιτεῖν· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:1)
  • Ὦ Πολύδευκεσ, ἐντέλλομαί σοι, ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα ἀνέλθῃσ, ‐ σὸν γάρ ἐστιν, οἶμαι, ἀναβιῶναι αὔριον ‐ ἤν που ἴδῃσ Μένιππον τὸν κύνα, ‐ εὑρ́οισ δ̓ ἂν αὐτὸν ἐν Κορίνθῳ κατὰ τὸ Κράνειον ἢ ἐν Λυκείῳ τῶν ἐριζόντων πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ φιλοσόφων καταγελῶντα ‐ εἰπεῖν πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὅτι σοί, ὦ Μένιππε, κελεύει ὁ Διογένησ, εἴ σοι ἱκανῶσ τὰ ὑπὲρ γῆσ καταγεγέλασται, ἥκειν ἐνθάδε πολλῷ πλείω ἐπιγελασόμενον· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:1)
  • δύναιτ’ ἂν ὀρθῶσ νέοσ ἀναγνοὺσ βίβλον ἢ σχολὴν περὶ πολιτείασ ἐν Λυκείῳ γραψάμενοσ, ἂν μὴ παρ’ ἡνίαν καὶ παρ’ οἰάκα πολλάκισ στάσ, δημαγωγῶν καὶ στρατηγῶν ἀγωνιζομένων ἐμπειρίαισ ἅμα καὶ τύχαισ συναποκλίνων ἐπ’ ἀμφότερα, μετὰ κινδύνων καὶ πραγμάτων λάβῃ τὴν μάθησιν; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 12 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to a wolf

Related

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

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