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λύσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύσιος λύσιᾱ λύσιον

Structure: λυσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/sis

Sense

  1. releasing, delivering

Examples

  • "καὶ κιθαρίζοντεσ ἕτεροι προϊάσιν, οὓσ αὐτοὶ Λευίτασ προσονομάζουσιν, εἴτε παρὰ τὸν Λύσιον εἴτε μᾶλλον παρὰ τὸν Εὐιόν τῆσ ἐπικλήσεωσ γεγενημένησ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 3:9)
  • "τοὐναντίον δ’ οἱ παλαιοὶ τὸν θεὸν Ἐλευθερᾶ καὶ Λύσιον ἐκάλουν καὶ μαντικῆσ πολλὴν ἔχειν ἡγοῦντο μοῖραν, οὐ διὰ τὸ βακχεύσιμον καὶ μανιῶδεσ ὥσπερ Εὐριπίδησ εἶπεν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τὸ δουλοπρεπὲσ καὶ περιδεὲσ καὶ ἄπιστον ἐξαιρῶν καὶ ἀπολύων τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ παρρησίᾳ χρῆσθαι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ δίδωσιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 5:20)
  • Λύσιον δέ, τὸν δὲ Βάκχειον ὀνομάζουσι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 12:4)
  • καὶ ἔδει τὸ γόνυ τὸ δεξιὸν κλίναντα ἱκετεύειν τε καὶ καλεῖν Λύσιον τὸν θεόν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 10:8)

Synonyms

  1. releasing

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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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