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Λίβυας (Libyas)

Λίβυας is an Ancient Greek form of Λίβυς, meaning “Libyan”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 16.77: οἰκεῦντες Λιβύας ἄκρον σφυρὸν ἐρρίγασιν.

Plutarch, Lysander 25.3: … όντα, τοὺς δὲ δυσχεραίνοντας εἰς Σπάρτην τινὰς ἀποστεῖλαι τοῦ Λυσάνδρου κατηγορήσοντας, ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀπελύθη, τοὺς Λίβυας ἀπιόντας εἰπεῖν· ἀλλʼ ἡμεῖς γε βέλτιον, ὦ Σπαρτιᾶται, κρινοῦμεν, ὅταν ἥκητε πρὸς ἡμᾶς εἰς Λιβύην οἰκήσοντες, …

All forms of Λίβυς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.