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λύριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύριον λύριου

Structure: λυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lu/ra의 지소사, Ar.

Sense

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

  • ἐνεγκάτω τισ τὸ λύριον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric 1:6)
  • ἐν καιρῷ δεομένῳ βραδυτέρου δείπνου διάγραμμα παρακείμενον ἤ τι βιβλίδιον ἢ λύριον οὐ προϊένται τῇ γαστρὶ λεηλατούμενον, ἀλλ’ ἀποστρέφων συνεχῶσ καὶ μεταφέρων ἐπὶ ταῦτα τὴν διάνοιαν ἀπὸ τῆσ τραπέζησ ὥσπερ Ἁρπυίασ τὰσ ὀρέξεισ διασοβήσει ταῖσ Μούσαισ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 1:1)

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

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