Λιβάνου (Libanou)

Λιβάνου is an Ancient Greek form of λίβανος, meaning “frankincense-tree, Boswellia Carterii”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.20: … τεῖν πεδαρτᾶν. μαντικῇ τʼ ἐχρῆτο τῇ διὰ τῶν κλῃδόνων τε καὶ οἰωνῶν, ἥκιστα δὲ τῇ διὰ τῶν ἐμπύρων, ἔξω τῆς διὰ λιβάνου. θυσίαις τε ἐχρῆτο ἀψύχοις, οἱ δέ φασιν, ὅτι ἀλέκτορσι μόνον καὶ ἐρίφοις γαλαθηνοῖς καὶ τοῖς λεγομένοις ἁπαλί …

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 8: ἔνι δὲ καὶ ἄλλο θωῦμα ἐν τῇ χώρῃ τῇ Βυβλίῃ. ποταμὸς ἐκ τοῦ Λιβάνου τοῦ οὔρεος ἐς τὴν ἅλα ἐκδιδοῖ· οὔνομα τῷ ποταμῷ Ἄδωνις ἐπικέαται. ὁ δὲ ποταμὸς ἑκάστου ἔτεος αἱμάσσεται καὶ τ …

All forms of λίβανος (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.