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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)
  • τοῦ δὲ Σιδωνίου ποτὲ σοφιστοῦ Ἀθήνησιν εὐδοκιμοῦντοσ καὶ λέγοντοσ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ ἔπαινόν τινα τοιοῦτον, ὅτι πάσησ φιλοσοφίασ πεπείραται ‐ οὐ χεῖρον δὲ αὐτὰ εἰπεῖν ἃ ἔλεγεν Εἂν Ἀριστοτέλησ με καλῇ ἐπὶ τὸ Λύκειον, ἕψομαι· (Lucian, (no name) 14:1)
  • καίτοι εἰ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτῇ τοιοῦτο ἐπέπρακτο, καλῶσ εἶχέ μοι ἀνδρὶ ἤδη τετταράκοντα ἔτη σχεδὸν γεγονότι θορύβων μὲν ἐκείνων καὶ δικῶν ἀπηλλάχθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ τοὺσ δικαστὰσ ἀτρεμεῖν ἐᾶν, τυράννων κατηγορίασ καὶ ἀριστέων ἐπαίνουσ ἐκφυγόντα, εἰσ δὲ τὴν Ἀκαδήμειαν ἢ εἰσ τὸ Λύκειον ἐλθόντα τῷ βελτίστῳ τούτῳ Διαλόγῳ συμπεριπατεῖν ἠρέμα διαλεγομένουσ, τῶν ἐπαίνων καὶ κρότων οὐ δεομένουσ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 32:2)
  • ὁ μὲν χῶροσ αὐτόσ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, γυμνάσιον ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ὀνομάζεται καὶ ἔστιν ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ τοῦ Λυκείου. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 7:2)
  • 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)
  • καὶ σύ, Λύκει’ ἄναξ, Λύκειοσ γενοῦ στρατῷ δαί̈ῳ στόνων ἀντίτασ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • εὐμενὴσ δ’ ὁ Λύκειοσ ἔ‐ στω πάσᾳ νεολαίᾳ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 33)
  • αὕτη δ’, Ὀρέστα, τοῦ λυκοκτόνου θεοῦ ἀγορὰ Λύκειοσ· (Sophocles, episode 1:3)
  • Λύκειον δὲ ἀπὸ μὲν Λύκου τοῦ Πανδίονοσ ἔχει τὸ ὄνομα, Ἀπόλλωνοσ δὲ ἱερὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τε εὐθὺσ καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἐνομίζετο, Λύκ<ε>ιόσ τε ὁ θεὸσ ἐνταῦθα ὠνομάσθη πρῶτον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:4)

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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